a business must manufacture or alter the physical content of a product to fall under NAICS 31-33.

In a resounding victory for actual manufacturers- the people that make things- the OMB reported today that the proposal to create a “Factoryless Goods Producer’ classification for the NAICS 2017 has been withdrawn. PMPA has been on the forefront of challenging the classification which would have created a class of phantom manufactures that did not…