424940 Tobacco Product and Electronic Cigarette Merchant Wholesalers

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of tobacco products, such as cigarettes, snuff, cigars, pipe tobacco, and electronic cigarettes (including related parts and accessories).

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:

• Merchant wholesale distribution of leaf tobacco and hemp are classified in Industry 424590, Other Farm Product Raw Material Merchant Wholesalers.
• Merchant wholesale distribution of electronic cigarette vapor liquids are classified in Industry 424690, Other Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers.

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

Activities listed under 424940

The Census index assigns these 8 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Chewing tobacco merchant wholesalers
• Cigarettes merchant wholesalers
• Cigars merchant wholesalers
• Electronic cigarettes merchant wholesalers
• Pipe tobacco merchant wholesalers
• Snuff merchant wholesalers
• Tobacco (except leaf) merchant wholesalers
• Tobacco products merchant wholesalers

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 424940

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 424940, 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: 4630), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 46310Wholesale of fruit and vegetablesUK SIC
• 46320Wholesale of meat and meat productsUK SIC
• 46330Wholesale of dairy products, eggs and edible oils and fatsUK SIC
• 46341Wholesale of fruit and vegetable juices, mineral water and soft drinksUK SIC
• 46342Wholesale of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beveragesUK SIC
• 46350Wholesale of tobacco productsUK SIC
• 46360Wholesale of sugar and chocolate and sugar confectioneryUK SIC
• 46370Wholesale of coffee, tea, cocoa and spicesUK SIC
• 46380Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscsUK SIC
• 46390Non-specialised wholesale of food, beverages and tobaccoUK SIC

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

Similar codes to compare

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