333415

Analysis

NAICS 333415 is the 2022 national industry for air-conditioning and warm air heating equipment and commercial and industrial refrigeration equipment manufacturing, part of 33341 (Ventilation, Heating, Air-Conditioning, and Commercial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing). Census lists 34 example activities under it in the official index.

By establishments it ranks 1st of the 3 codes at this level within Ventilation, Heating, Air-Conditioning, and Commercial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing, with 50.6% of them.

County Business Patterns counts 852 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 101,617 people at an average annual payroll of $67,386 per employee (48th percentile of national industries). 23% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Census lists 5 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 336390, 335220, 335210 and 333414. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include air-conditioners, unit (e.g., motor home, travel trailer…, air-conditioning and warm air heating combination units…, air-conditioning compressors (except motor vehicle)… and air-conditioning condensers and condensing units…, among 34 in all.

Its goods appear in 57 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8415 (air conditioning machines, comprising a motor-driven fan…), 8418 (refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing…) and 8414 (air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.