334417

Analysis

NAICS 334417 is the 2022 national industry for electronic connector manufacturing, part of 33441 (Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing). Census lists 6 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 206 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 20,430 people at an average annual payroll of $85,475 per employee (74th percentile of national industries). 22% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

By establishments it ranks 6th of the 6 codes at this level within Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing, with 5.6% of them.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include coaxial connectors manufacturing, connectors, electronic (e.g., coaxial, cylindrical, printed…, cylindrical connectors, electronic, manufacturing and fiber optic connectors manufacturing, among 6 in all.

Its goods appear in 7 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8536 (electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical…) and 8535 (electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

For example, manufacturing electrical connectors, such as plugs, bus bars, twist on wire connectors and terminals are classified in 335931 (Current-Carrying Wiring Device Manufacturing) instead.