339993

Analysis

NAICS 339993 is the 2022 national industry for fastener, button, needle, and pin manufacturing, part of 33999 (All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing). Census lists 12 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 19% and employment fell 18%. 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 89 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 3,341 people at an average annual payroll of $59,767 per employee (32nd percentile of national industries). 44% 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 buckles and buckle parts (including shoe) manufacturing, buttons (except precious metal, precious stones…, cuff links (except precious) manufacturing and eyelets, metal, manufacturing, among 12 in all.

Its goods appear in 28 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 9606 (buttons, press-fasteners, snap-fasteners and press-studs…), 7319 (sewing needles, knitting needles, bodkins, crochet hooks…) and 9607 (slide fasteners and parts thereof). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

Census lists 3 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 339910, 339112 and 334419. 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.