33591

Analysis

NAICS 33591 is the 2022 NAICS industry for battery manufacturing, part of 3359 (Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing).

It has only one more detailed code, 335910, which covers exactly the same activities; the definition, index entries and statistics are on that page.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 34% and employment rose 30%. 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 325 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 39,723 people at an average annual payroll of $82,241 per employee (71st percentile of national industries). 31% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

By establishments it ranks 4th of the 4 codes at this level within Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing, with 14.6% of them.

Its goods appear in 82 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8507 (electric storage batteries, including separators therefor…), 9102 (wrist watches, pocket watches and other watches, including…) and 8506 (primary cells and primary batteries; parts thereof). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.