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| Employers | Nonemployers | Compare to '97 | States | Products, Size, etc. | ||
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NAICS code |
Description |
Estab- lish- ments |
Sales
($1,000) |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Paid employees |
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42 | Wholesale trade | 435,521 | 4,634,755,112 | 259,653,080 | 5,878,405 | |
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423 | Durable goods merchant wholesalers | 260,445 | 2,171,265,591 | 157,156,665 | 3,356,985 | |
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4235 | Metal & mineral (exc petrol) merchant wholesalers | 10,962 | 117,454,774 | 6,561,703 | 147,703 | |
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42351 | Metal service centers & other metal merchant wholesalers | 10,434 | 108,103,507 | 6,354,603 | 143,980 | |
| 423510 | Metal service centers & other metal merchant wholesalers | 10,434 | 108,103,507 | 6,354,603 | 143,980 | ||
| 4235101 | Ferrous metal serv ctrs & sales off merchant wholesalers | 8,633 | 84,426,278 | 5,269,390 | 121,093 | ||
| 4235102 | Nonferrous metal serv ctrs & sales off merchant wholesalers | 1,801 | 23,677,229 | 1,085,213 | 22,887 | ||
| NAICS code |
NAICS Title |
All firms | Nonemployers | Employers | ||||||
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Establish- ments |
Receipts ($1,000) | Establishments | Receipts |
Establish- ments |
Sales ($1,000) | |||||
| Number | % of all | $1,000 | % of all | |||||||
| N = Not available | ||||||||||
| 42 | Wholesale trade | 799,302 | 4,664,777,063 | 363,781 | 45.5 | 30,021,951 | 0.6 | 435,521 | 4,634,755,112 | |
| 423 | Durable goods merchant wholesalers | 454,362 | 2,188,221,869 | 193,917 | 42.7 | 16,956,278 | 0.8 | 260,445 | 2,171,265,591 | |
| 4235 | Metal & mineral (exc petrol) merchant wholesalers | 14,199 | 117,837,864 | 3,237 | 22.8 | 383,090 | 0.3 | 10,962 | 117,454,774 | |
| 42351 | Metal service centers & other metal merchant wholesalers | N | N | N | N | N | N | 10,434 | 108,103,507 | |
| 423510 | Metal service centers & other metal merchant wholesalers | N | N | N | N | N | N | 10,434 | 108,103,507 | |
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of products of the primary metals industries. Service centers maintain inventory and may perform functions, such as sawing, shearing, bending, leveling, cleaning, or edging, on a custom basis as part of sales transactions.
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2002 NAICS code |
1997 NAICS code |
Pt. | Description |
Estab- lish- ments |
Sales |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Paid employees |
Link to SIC (1997 data) |
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| ($1,000) | (Pct) | ||||||||
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Metal service centers & other metal merchant wholesalers | 10,434 | 108,103,507 | 100.0 | 6,354,603 | 143,980 | |
| 93% of | 421510 |
| Metal service centers & offices (pt) | 10,434 | 108,103,507 | 100.0 | 6,354,603 | 143,980 |
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| 421510 | pt | Ferrous metals service center with inventory | 5,901 | 56,540,934 | 4,329,465 | 99,962 | |||
| 421510 | pt | Ferrous metals sales office without inventory | 2,732 | 27,885,344 | 939,925 | 21,131 | |||
| 421510 | pt | Nonferrous metals service center with inventory | 1,197 | 18,452,483 | 830,160 | 17,995 | |||
| 421510 | pt | Nonferrous metals sales office without inventory | 604 | 5,224,746 | 255,053 | 4,892 | |||
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1997 NAICS code |
1997 NAICS Description | Year | Establishments | Sales ($1,000) | Annual payroll ($1,000) | Paid employees | ||||||||
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| 421510 | Metal service centers & offices | 2002 | 11,406 | 116,580,669 | 6,516,430 | 146,766 | ||||||||
| 1997 | 11,827 | 135,695,563 | 6,637,599 | 168,950 | ||||||||||
| % change | -3.6 | -14.1 | -1.8 | -13.1 | ||||||||||
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Data for the Wholesale trade sector are published for the U.S., states, metropolitan areas, counties, and places.




















































| Product code | Product description | Sales of this line ($000) |
Percent of industry sales (%) |
Graph |
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| 10000 | Industry total | 108,103,50 | 100.00 | |
| 11120 | Flat iron and steel products | 35,743,170 | 33.06 | |
| 11220 | Aluminum shapes and forms | 11,205,724 | 10.37 | |
| 11100 | Semi-finished iron and steel products | 10,586,463 | 9.79 | |
| 11150 | Iron and steel pipes and tubing | 8,991,122 | 8.32 | |
| 11180 | Stainless steel | 6,558,371 | 6.07 | |
| 11200 | Copper and brass | 6,413,606 | 5.93 | |
| -Other | 28,605,051 | 26.46 |
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