31182 Cookie, Cracker, and Pasta Manufacturing

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one of the following: (1) manufacturing cookies and crackers; (2) preparing flour and dough mixes and dough from flour ground elsewhere; and (3) manufacturing dry pasta. The establishments in this industry may package the dry pasta they manufacture with other ingredients.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Preparing and selling bakery products (e.g., cookies, pretzels) for immediate consumption are classified in Industry 72251, Restaurants and Other Eating Places.
• Retailing bakery products not for immediate consumption made elsewhere are classified in Industry 44529, Other Specialty Food Retailers.
• Manufacturing bakery products (e.g., bread, cookies, pies) are classified in Industry 31181, Bread and Bakery Product Manufacturing.
• Milling flour and preparing flour mixes or doughs are classified in Industry 31121, Flour Milling and Malt Manufacturing.
• Manufacturing fresh pasta are classified in Industry 31199, All Other Food Manufacturing.
• Manufacturing pasta specialties are classified in Industry Group 3114, Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing.
• Manufacturing pretzels (except soft) are classified in Industry 31191, Snack Food Manufacturing.
• Mixing purchased dried and/or dehydrated ingredients with purchased dry pasta are classified in Industry 31199, All Other Food Manufacturing.
• Drying and/or dehydrating ingredients and packaging them with purchased dry pasta are classified in Industry 31142, Fruit and Vegetable Canning, Pickling, and Drying.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Codes in 31182

• 311821Cookie and Cracker Manufacturing
• 311824Dry Pasta, Dough, and Flour Mixes Manufacturing from Purchased Flour