Summary - Canadian Industry Statistics

Definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in wholesaling metals and metal products. These establishments may also cut, bend or otherwise prepare metals to customer specification.

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  Example Activities:
  Aluminum and aluminum alloy, primary forms and basic shapes, wholesale
  Aluminum bars, rods, ingots, sheets, pipes, plates, wholesale
  Angles, rods and bars, steel, wholesale
  Anode metal, wholesale
  Architectural metal work, wholesale
  Bar joists, fabricated, wholesale
  Bars, rods and angles, steel, wholesale
  Blooms, billets, slabs and other semi-finished shapes, wholesale
  Cable and rope, wire, steel, wholesale
  Carbon and alloy steels, primary forms and structural shapes, wholesale
  Castings and forgings, iron and steel products, wholesale
  Concrete forms, steel, wholesale
  Concrete reinforcing bars, wholesale
  Copper and copper alloy, primary forms and basic shapes, wholesale
  Copper architectural and structural metal products, wholesale
  Copper sheets, plates, bars, rods, pipes, wholesale
  Ferroalloys, wholesale
  Forgings and castings, iron and steel products, wholesale
  Grinding balls, cast or forged, wholesale
  Ingots (except precious), wholesale
  Ingots, non-ferrous metals, wholesale
  Iron and steel in primary forms and shapes, wholesale
  Iron and steel wire, wholesale
  Iron and steel, rough cast, wholesale
  Lead and zinc fabricated basic products, wholesale
  Lead primary forms and basic shapes, wholesale
  Mercury, wholesale
  Nickel and nickel alloy, primary forms and basic shapes, wholesale
  Ornamental iron and steel products, wholesale
  Pig and other primary iron, wholesale
  Pipes and tubes, metal, wholesale
  Plate, sheet and strip, steel, wholesale
  Primary forms and basic shapes, non-ferrous metal, wholesale
  Rails and accessories, metal, wholesale
  Reinforcement mesh, wire, wholesale
  Reinforcing rods, steel, wholesale
  Rods, bars and angles, steel, wholesale
  Rope, wire (except insulated), wholesale
  Sheet piling, steel, wholesale
  Sheets, galvanized or other coated, wholesale
  Sheets, metal, wholesale
  Springs, general purpose, steel, wholesale
  Stainless steel fabricated products, wholesale
  Steel strapping, wholesale
  Steel tubing, wholesale
  Structural shapes and plates, wholesale
  Terneplate, wholesale
  Tin plate, wholesale
  Tubing, metal, wholesale
  Wire rods, wholesale
  Wire screening, wholesale

  Exclusions

  Establishments primarily engaged in:
  wholesaling electrical wire (see 416110 Electrical wiring and construction supplies merchant wholesalers)
  wholesaling metal ores and concentrates (see 418920 Mineral, ore and precious metal merchant
  wholesalers)