333993

Analysis

NAICS 333993 is the 2022 national industry for packaging machinery manufacturing, part of 33399 (All Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing). Census lists 14 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 523 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 24,451 people at an average annual payroll of $85,027 per employee (74th percentile of national industries). 23% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include bag opening, filling, and closing machines manufacturing, bottle washers, packaging machinery, manufacturing, bottling machinery (e.g., capping, filling, labeling… and bread wrapping machines manufacturing, among 14 in all.

Its goods appear in 28 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8422 (dishwashing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying…) and 8438 (machinery, not specified or included elsewhere in this…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.