334412

Analysis

NAICS 334412 is the 2022 national industry for bare printed circuit board manufacturing, part of 33441 (Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing). Census lists 3 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 15% and employment fell 3%. The 2018 count used NAICS 2017, so part of a large move can come from codes being redefined rather than from businesses opening or closing.

County Business Patterns counts 394 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 22,440 people at an average annual payroll of $65,380 per employee (43rd percentile of national industries). 32% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include circuit boards, printed, bare, manufacturing, flexible wiring boards, bare, manufacturing and printed circuit boards, bare, manufacturing.

Its goods appear in 7 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8534 (). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, loading components onto printed circuit boards or manufacturing loaded printed circuit boards are classified in 334418 (Printed Circuit Assembly (Electronic Assembly) Manufacturing) instead.