339994

Analysis

NAICS 339994 is the 2022 national industry for broom, brush, and mop manufacturing, part of 33999 (All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing). Census lists 9 example activities under it in the official index.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 16% and employment fell 10%. 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 145 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 8,781 people at an average annual payroll of $59,763 per employee (32nd percentile of national industries). 27% 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 brooms, hand and machine, manufacturing, brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing, brushes, paint (except artists'), manufacturing and hairbrushes manufacturing, among 9 in all.

Its goods appear in 26 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 9603 (brooms, brushes (including brushes constituting parts of…) and 7326 (other articles of iron or steel). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.