NAICS code 424940: Tobacco Product and Electronic Cigarette Merchant Wholesalers

NAICS 424940 is “Tobacco Product and Electronic Cigarette Merchant Wholesalers”. 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).

Examples from the U.S. Census Bureau: Chewing tobacco merchant wholesalers; Cigarettes merchant wholesalers; Cigars merchant wholesalers; Electronic cigarettes merchant wholesalers; Pipe tobacco merchant wholesalers; and Snuff merchant wholesalers.

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

250 employees (average over the last 24 months), including affiliates. Source: 13 CFR 121.201, effective March 17, 2023.

SIC 5194 (Tobacco and Tobacco Products, part), from the U.S. Census Bureau concordances (1987 SIC → 2002 NAICS, carried to 2022 NAICS).

424940 (Tobacco products & electronic cigarettes) on Schedule C, line B, from the IRS list of principal business codes.

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