2022 NAICS national industry in sector 42 Wholesale Trade
423690 Other Electronic Parts and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
NAICS 423690 is the US industry code for other electronic parts and equipment merchant wholesalers. It covers establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of electronic parts and equipment (except electrical apparatus and equipment, wiring supplies, and construction materials; electrical and electronic appliances; and television sets and radios).
- Code
- 423690 (2022 NAICS)
- Title
- Other Electronic Parts and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
- Part of
- Household Appliances and Electrical and Electronic Goods Merchant Wholesalers
- SBA small business limit
- Up to 250 employees
- Closest UK SIC
- 46520 (details)
Changes coming. The NAICS 2027 revision applies to data from 1 January 2027, and SBA proposed new size standards on 20 August 2026. The values on this page are the ones in force today; we update this page when the official files change.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of electronic parts and equipment (except electrical apparatus and equipment, wiring supplies, and construction materials; electrical and electronic appliances; and television sets and radios).
Examples Census gives
- Blank compact discs (CDs) merchant wholesalers
- Blank digital video discs (DVDs) merchant wholesalers
- Broadcasting equipment merchant wholesalers
- Cellular telephones merchant wholesalers
- Communications equipment merchant wholesalers
- Modems and routers merchant wholesalers
- Radar equipment merchant wholesalers
- Teleconferencing equipment merchant wholesalers
- Unloaded computer boards merchant wholesalers
When to use a different code
Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:
- Merchant wholesale distribution of household-type gas and electric appliances (except water heaters and heating stoves (i.e., noncooking)), room air-conditioners, clothes dryers, and/or household-type audio or video equipment are classified in Industry 423620, Household Appliances, Electric Housewares, and Consumer Electronics Merchant Wholesalers.
- Merchant wholesale distribution of computers, computer peripheral equipment, and loaded computer boards are classified in Industry 423430, Computer and Computer Peripheral Equipment and Software Merchant Wholesalers.
- Merchant wholesale distribution of electrical construction materials, wiring supplies, electric light fixtures, light bulbs, and/or electrical power equipment for generation, transmission, distribution, or control of electric energy are classified in Industry 423610, Electrical Apparatus and Equipment, Wiring Supplies, and Related Equipment Merchant Wholesalers.
Activities listed under 423690
The Census index assigns these 66 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.
- Amplifiers, audio (except household-type), merchant wholesalers
- Antennas merchant wholesalers
- Audiotapes, blank, merchant wholesalers
- Automatic call distributors merchant wholesalers
- Bipolar transistors merchant wholesalers
- Blank CDs and DVDs merchant wholesalers
- Blank diskettes merchant wholesalers
- Blank tapes, audio and video, merchant wholesalers
- Broadcasting equipment merchant wholesalers
- Capacitors, electronic, merchant wholesalers
- Carbon monoxide detectors, electronic, merchant wholesalers
- Cellular telephones merchant wholesalers
- Circuit boards merchant wholesalers
- Circuits, integrated, merchant wholesalers
- Citizens' band (CB) radios merchant wholesalers
- Coils, electronic, merchant wholesalers
- Communications equipment merchant wholesalers
- Computer boards, unloaded, merchant wholesalers
- Computer chips merchant wholesalers
- Condensers, electronic, merchant wholesalers
- Connectors, electronic, merchant wholesalers
- Diodes merchant wholesalers
- Diskettes, blank, merchant wholesalers
- Electronic aircraft instruments merchant wholesalers
- Electronic communications equipment merchant wholesalers
- Electronic parts (e.g., condensers, connectors, switches) merchant wholesalers
- Electronic sound equipment (except household-type and automotive) merchant wholesalers
- Electronic tubes (e.g., industrial, receiving, transmitting) merchant wholesalers
- Facsimile machines merchant wholesalers
- Integrated circuits merchant wholesalers
- Klystron tubes merchant wholesalers
- Liquid crystal displays merchant wholesalers
- Magnetic bubble memories merchant wholesalers
- Magnetic tapes, cassettes, and disks, blank, merchant wholesalers
- Modems merchant wholesalers
- Natural gas detectors, electronic, merchant wholesalers
- Navigational instruments, electronic (e.g., radar, sonar), merchant wholesalers
- Printed circuit boards merchant wholesalers
- Public address systems and equipment merchant wholesalers
- Radar equipment merchant wholesalers
- Radio frequency identification (RFID) equipment merchant wholesalers
- Radio parts and accessories (e.g., transistors, tubes) merchant wholesalers
- Radios (except household-type) merchant wholesalers
- Random access memory (RAM) chips merchant wholesalers
- Rectifiers, electronic, merchant wholesalers
- Resistors, electronic, merchant wholesalers
- Routers merchant wholesalers
- Semiconductor devices merchant wholesalers
- Smartphones merchant wholesalers
- Smartwatches merchant wholesalers
- Solar cells merchant wholesalers
- Sonar equipment merchant wholesalers
- Switches, electronic, merchant wholesalers
- Tapes, blank, audio and video, merchant wholesalers
- Telecommunications equipment merchant wholesalers
- Teleconferencing equipment, audio or video, merchant wholesalers
- Telegraph equipment merchant wholesalers
- Telephone equipment merchant wholesalers
- Telephones merchant wholesalers
- Touch-screen displays (except computer monitors) merchant wholesalers
- Transformers, electronic, merchant wholesalers
- Transistors merchant wholesalers
- Transmitters merchant wholesalers
- Tubes, electronic (e.g., industrial, receiving, transmitting), merchant wholesalers
- Unloaded computer boards merchant wholesalers
- Video tapes, blank, merchant wholesalers
SBA size standard for 423690
To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 423690, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed 250 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: 4652, 4659), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.
Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.
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Data last changed November 14, 2026. How this page is built.