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2007 NAICS Definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of nondurable goods (except printing and writing paper; stationery and office supplies; industrial and personal service paper; drugs and druggists' sundries; apparel, piece goods, and notions; grocery and related products; farm product raw materials; chemical and allied products; petroleum and petroleum products; beer, wine, and distilled alcoholic beverages; farm supplies; books, periodicals and newspapers; flower, nursery stock and florists' supplies; tobacco and tobacco products; and paint, varnishes, wallpaper, and supplies).

Cross-References. Establishments primarily engaged in--

• Distribution of advertising specialties--are classified in Industry 541890, Other Services Related to Advertising;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of farm supplies--are classified in Industry 424910, Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of books, periodicals, and newspapers--are classified in Industry 424920, Book, Periodical, and Newspaper Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of flowers, nursery stock, and florists' supplies--are classified in Industry 424930, Flower, Nursery Stock, and Florists' Supplies Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of tobacco and its products--are classified in Industry 424940, Tobacco and Tobacco Product Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of paints, varnishes, and similar coatings; pigments; wallpaper; and supplies--are classified in Industry 424950, Paint, Varnish, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of bulk printing and/or writing paper--are classified in Industry 424110, Printing and Writing Paper Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of stationery, office supplies, and/or gift wrap--are classified in Industry 424120, Stationery and Office Supplies Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of wrapping and other coarse paper, paperboard, converted paper (except stationery and office supplies), and related disposable plastics products--are classified in Industry 424130, Industrial and Personal Service Paper Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of biological and medical products; botanical drugs and herbs; and pharmaceutical products intended for internal and external consumption--are classified in Industry 424210, Drugs and Druggists' Sundries Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of clothing and accessories, footwear, piece goods, yard goods, notions, and/or hair accessories--are classified in Industry Group 4243, Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of meat, poultry, seafood, confectioneries, fruits and vegetables; and other groceries and related products--are classified in Industry Group 4244, Grocery and Related Product Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of grains, field beans, livestock, and other farm product raw materials--are classified in Industry Group 4245, Farm Product Raw Material Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of chemicals; plastics materials and basic forms and shapes; and allied products--are classified in Industry Group 4246, Chemical and Allied Products Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of petroleum and petroleum products--are classified in Industry Group 4247, Petroleum and Petroleum Products Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of beer, ale, wine, and distilled alcoholic beverages--are classified in Industry Group 4248, Beer, Wine, and Distilled Alcoholic Beverage Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of pet foods--are classified in Industry 424490, Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers;
• Merchant wholesale distribution of religious statuary--are classified in Industry 423990, Other Miscellaneous Durable Goods Merchant Wholesalers; and
• Merchant wholesale distribution of knitting yarns (except industrial)--are classified in Industry 424310, Piece Goods, Notions, and Other Dry Goods Merchant Wholesalers.

Index entries that bring you to this industry:

• Art goods merchant wholesalers
• Artificial Christmas trees merchant wholesalers
• Artists' supplies merchant wholesalers
• Awnings, canvas, merchant wholesalers
• Bags, textile, merchant wholesalers
• Bait, live, merchant wholesalers
• Baskets merchant wholesalers
• Burlap merchant wholesalers
• Candles merchant wholesalers
• Canvas products merchant wholesalers
• Cats merchant wholesalers
• Chamois, leather, merchant wholesalers
• Charcoal merchant wholesalers
• Christmas ornaments merchant wholesalers
• Christmas trees (e.g., artificial, cut) merchant wholesalers
• Cigarette lighters merchant wholesalers
• Clothes hangers merchant wholesalers
• Cotton (except raw) merchant wholesalers
• Crude rubber merchant wholesalers
• Curios merchant wholesalers
• Dogs merchant wholesalers
• Dressed furs and skins merchant wholesalers
• Felt merchant wholesalers
• Fish, tropical, merchant wholesalers
• Foam rubber merchant wholesalers
• Furs, dressed, merchant wholesalers
• General merchandise, nondurable goods, merchant wholesalers
• Greases, inedible animal and vegetable, merchant wholesalers
• Hairbrushes merchant wholesalers
• Hairpieces (e.g., toupees, wigs, wiglets) merchant wholesalers
• Handles (e.g., broom, mop, paint) merchant wholesalers
• Ice (except dry ice) merchant wholesalers
• Jewelry boxes merchant wholesalers
• Leather cut stock (except boot, shoe) merchant wholesalers
• Leather goods (except belting, footwear, handbags, gloves, luggage) merchant wholesalers
• Lighters, cigar and cigarette, merchant wholesalers
• Live bait merchant wholesalers
• Matches and match books merchant wholesalers
• Music, sheet, merchant wholesalers
• Novelties merchant wholesalers
• Oils, inedible, animal or vegetable, merchant wholesalers
• Oilseed cake and meal merchant wholesalers
• Paints, artist's, merchant wholesalers
• Pet supplies (except pet food) merchant wholesalers
• Pets merchant wholesalers
• Piece goods, burlap and felt, merchant wholesalers
• Plant food merchant wholesalers
• Plastics foam products (except disposable) merchant wholesalers
• Pre-paid calling card distribution, merchant wholesalers
• Rennets merchant wholesalers
• Rubber, crude, merchant wholesalers
• Sawdust merchant wholesalers
• Sheet music merchant wholesalers
• Ship chandler merchant wholesalers
• Skins, dressed, merchant wholesalers
• Smokers' supplies merchant wholesalers
• Sponges merchant wholesalers
• Statuary goods (except religious) merchant wholesalers
• Textile bags merchant wholesalers
• Toupees merchant wholesalers
• Tropical fish merchant wholesalers
• Vegetable cake and meal merchant wholesalers
• Wigs merchant wholesalers
• Wood carvings merchant wholesalers
• Wood pulp merchant wholesalers
• Worms merchant wholesalers
• Yarns, industrial, merchant wholesalers