321999 All Other Miscellaneous Wood Product Manufacturing

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing wood products (except establishments operating sawmills and preservation facilities; establishments manufacturing veneer, engineered wood products, millwork, wood containers, pallets, and wood container parts; and establishments making manufactured homes (i.e., mobile homes) and prefabricated buildings and components).

Examples Census gives

• Cabinets (i.e., housings), wood (e.g., sewing machines, stereo, television), manufacturing
• Cork products (except gaskets) manufacturing
• Kiln drying lumber
• Shoe trees manufacturing
• Wood dowels manufacturing
• Wood extension ladders manufacturing
• Wood handles (e.g., broom, handtool, mop), manufacturing
• Wood kitchenware manufacturing
• Wood stepladders manufacturing
• Wood toilet seats manufacturing
• Wood toothpicks manufacturing

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:

• Operating sawmills and preserving wood are classified in Industry 32111, Sawmills and Wood Preservation.
• Manufacturing veneer and engineered wood products are classified in Industry 32121, Veneer, Plywood, and Engineered Wood Product Manufacturing.
• Manufacturing millwork are classified in Industry 32191, Millwork.
• Manufacturing boxes, box shook, wood containers, pallets, and wood parts for containers are classified in Industry 321920, Wood Container and Pallet Manufacturing.
• Making manufactured homes (i.e., mobile homes) are classified in U.S. Industry 321991, Manufactured Home (Mobile Home) Manufacturing.
• Manufacturing prefabricated wood buildings or wood sections and panels for buildings are classified in U.S. Industry 321992, Prefabricated Wood Building Manufacturing.

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

Activities listed under 321999

The Census index assigns these 126 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Applicators, wood, manufacturing
• Audio cabinets (i.e., housings), wood, manufacturing
• Bentwood (steam bent) products (except furniture) manufacturing
• Blocks, tackle, wood, manufacturing
• Blocks, tailors' pressing wood, manufacturing
• Boards, bulletin, wood and cork, manufacturing
• Boards, wood (e.g., clip, ironing, meat, pastry), manufacturing
• Boot and shoe lasts, all materials, manufacturing
• Bottle corks manufacturing
• Bottle covers, willow, rattan, and reed, manufacturing
• Bowls, wood, turned and shaped, manufacturing
• Bulletin boards, wood and cork, manufacturing
• Bungs, wood, manufacturing
• Buoys, cork, manufacturing
• Burnt wood articles manufacturing
• Bushings, wood, manufacturing
• Cabinets (i.e., housings), wood (e.g., sewing machines, stereo, television), manufacturing
• Carpets, cork, manufacturing
• Clipboards, wood, manufacturing
• Cloth winding reels, wood, manufacturing
• Clothes dryers (clothes horses), wood, manufacturing
• Clothes poles, wood, manufacturing
• Clothespins, wood, manufacturing
• Cork products (except gaskets) manufacturing
• Corks, bottle, manufacturing
• Covers, bottle and demijohn, willow, rattan, and reed, manufacturing
• Curtain stretchers, wood, manufacturing
• Dishes, wood, manufacturing
• Dowels, wood, manufacturing
• Excelsior (e.g., pads, wrappers) manufacturing
• Extension ladders, wood, manufacturing
• Extension planks, wood, manufacturing
• Fencing, prefabricated sections, wood, manufacturing
• Fencing, wood (except rough pickets, poles, and rails), manufacturing
• Firewood and fuel wood containing fuel binder manufacturing
• Flagpoles, wood, manufacturing
• Flour, wood, manufacturing
• Forms, display, boot and shoe, all materials, manufacturing
• Furniture inlays manufacturing
• Garment hangers, wood, manufacturing
• Gavels, wood, manufacturing
• Grain measures, wood, turned and shaped, manufacturing
• Hammers, wood, meat, manufacturing
• Handles (e.g., broom, mop, handtool), wood, manufacturing
• Hangers, wooden, garment, manufacturing
• Heels, boot and shoe, finished wood, manufacturing
• Household-type woodenware manufacturing
• Hubs, wood, manufacturing
• Insulating materials, cork, manufacturing
• Ironing boards, wood, manufacturing
• Kiln drying lumber
• Kitchenware, wood, manufacturing
• Knobs, wood, manufacturing
• Ladder jacks, wood, manufacturing
• Ladders, extension, wood, manufacturing
• Last sole patterns, all materials, manufacturing
• Lumber, kiln drying
• Mallets, wood, manufacturing
• Marquetry, wood, manufacturing
• Mashers, potato, wood, manufacturing
• Masts, wood, manufacturing
• Mauls, wood, manufacturing
• Novelties, wood fiber, manufacturing
• Oars, wood, manufacturing
• Paddles, wood, manufacturing
• Pads, excelsior, wood, manufacturing
• Pads, table, rattan, reed, and willow, manufacturing
• Paint sticks, wood, manufacturing
• Pastry boards, wood, manufacturing
• Pencil slats, wood, manufacturing
• Plugs, wood, manufacturing
• Pressed logs of sawdust and other wood particles, nonpetroleum binder, manufacturing
• Pressing blocks, wood, tailor's, manufacturing
• Pulleys, wood, manufacturing
• Rails (except rough), wood fence, manufacturing
• Rattan ware (except furniture) manufacturing
• Reed ware (except furniture) manufacturing
• Reels, plywood, manufacturing
• Reels, wood, manufacturing
• Rollers, wood, manufacturing
• Rolling pins, wood, manufacturing
• Rulers and rules (except slide), wood, manufacturing
• Saddle trees, wood, manufacturing
• Sawdust, regrinding
• Scoops, wood, manufacturing
• Seat covers, rattan, manufacturing
• Seats, toilet, wood, manufacturing
• Sewing machine cabinets, wood, manufacturing
• Shoe display forms, all materials, manufacturing
• Shoe stretchers manufacturing
• Shoe trees manufacturing
• Skewers, wood, manufacturing
• Snow fence, sections or rolls, manufacturing
• Spars, wood, manufacturing
• Speaker cabinets (i.e., housings), wood, manufacturing
• Spigots, wood, manufacturing
• Spokes, wood, manufacturing
• Spools (except for textile machinery), wood, manufacturing
• Stakes, surveyor's, wood, manufacturing
• Stepladders, wood, manufacturing
• Stereo cabinets (i.e., housings), wood, manufacturing
• Stoppers, cork, manufacturing
• Straw baskets manufacturing
• Stretchers, curtain, wood, manufacturing
• Surveyor's stakes, wood, manufacturing
• Tackle blocks, wood, manufacturing
• Television cabinets (i.e., housings), wood, manufacturing
• Tent poles, wood, manufacturing
• Tile, cork, manufacturing
• Toilet seats, wood, manufacturing
• Tool handles, wood, turned and shaped, manufacturing
• Toothpicks, wood, manufacturing
• Trays, wood, wicker, and bagasse, manufacturing
• Trophy bases, wood, manufacturing
• Veneer work, inlaid, manufacturing
• Washboards, wood and part wood, manufacturing
• Webbing, cane, reed, and rattan, manufacturing
• Willow ware (except furniture) manufacturing
• Wood flour manufacturing
• Wood heel blocks manufacturing
• Wood heels, finished, manufacturing
• Wood pellets manufacturing
• Wood wool (excelsior) manufacturing
• Woodenware, kitchen and household, manufacturing
• Wrappers, excelsior, manufacturing
• Yardsticks, wood, manufacturing

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 321999

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 321999, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed 500 employees. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 1610, 1623, 1629, 2220, 3100), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 16100Sawmilling and planing of woodUK SIC
• 16230Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joineryUK SIC
• 16290Manufacture of other products of wood; manufacture of articles of cork, straw and plaiting materialsUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

Similar codes to compare

• 321991Manufactured Home (Mobile Home) Manufacturing
• 321992Prefabricated Wood Building Manufacturing