332618 Other Fabricated Wire Product Manufacturing

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing fabricated wire products (except springs) made from purchased wire.

Examples Census gives

• Barbed wire made from purchased wire
• Chain link fencing and fence gates made from purchased wire
• Metal baskets made from purchased wire
• Paper clips made from purchased wire
• Nails, brads, and staples made from purchased wire
• Noninsulated wire cable made from purchased wire
• Woven wire cloth made from purchased wire

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:

• Drawing wire and manufacturing wire products are classified in Subsector 331, Primary Metal Manufacturing.
• Manufacturing springs from purchased wire, strip, or rod are classified in U.S. Industry 332613, Spring Manufacturing.
• Insulating nonferrous wire from wire drawn elsewhere are classified in U.S. Industry 335929, Other Communication and Energy Wire Manufacturing.

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

Activities listed under 332618

The Census index assigns these 53 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Automobile skid chains made from purchased wire
• Bale ties made from purchased wire
• Barbed wire made from purchased wire
• Baskets, metal, made from purchased wire
• Belts, conveyor, made from purchased wire
• Belts, drying, made from purchased wire
• Brackets made from purchased wire
• Brads, metal, made from purchased wire
• Cable, noninsulated wire, made from purchased wire
• Cages made from purchased wire
• Can keys made from purchased wire
• Chain link fencing and fence gates made from purchased wire
• Chain made from purchased wire
• Chain, welded, made from purchased wire
• Chicken netting made from purchased wire
• Cloth, woven wire, made from purchased wire
• Coat hangers made from purchased wire
• Concrete reinforcing mesh made from purchased wire
• Crab traps made from purchased wire
• Cylinder wire cloth made from purchased wire
• Delivery cases made from purchased wire
• Diamond cloths made from purchased wire
• Fabrics, woven wire, made from purchased wire
• Fencing and fence gates made from purchased wire
• Fourdrinier wire cloth made from purchased wire
• Grilles and grillwork made from purchased wire
• Guards, wire, made from purchased wire
• Hardware cloth, woven wire, made from purchased wire
• Insect screening made from purchased wire
• Key rings made from purchased wire
• Lamp frames, wire, made from purchased wire
• Mats and matting made from purchased wire
• Mesh made from purchased wire
• Nails, brads, and staples made from purchased wire
• Netting, woven, made from purchased wire
• Paper clips made from purchased wire
• Paper machine wire cloth made from purchased wire
• Poultry netting made from purchased wire
• Racks, household-type, made from purchased wire
• Reinforcing mesh, concrete, made from purchased wire
• Rope, wire, made from purchased wire
• Shelving, wire, made from purchased wire
• Sieves, made from purchased wire, manufacturing
• Slings, lifting, made from purchased wire
• Spikes made from purchased wire
• Spiral cloth made from purchased wire
• Staples made from purchased wire
• Stranded wire, uninsulated, made from purchased wire
• Tacks, metal, made from purchased wire
• Tire chains made from purchased wire
• Traps, animal and fish, made from purchased wire
• Trays, wire, made from purchased wire
• Window screening, woven, made from purchased wire

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 332618

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 332618, 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: 2599, 3290), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 25990Manufacture of other fabricated metal products n.e.c.UK SIC

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

Similar codes to compare

• 332613Spring Manufacturing