The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of paraffin wax, that activity is 19202.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
19202 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of paraffin wax: a sub-class of class 1920, manufacture of refined petroleum products, within division 19, manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 19Group 192Class 1920Sub-class 19202
Manufacture of paraffin wax
Sub-class 19202 · Class 1920 · Group 192 · Division 19 · Section C, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
192025 digits: 19 + 2 + 0 + 2NIC 2025 · Notice dated 16 October 2026
On 18 November 2025 the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released NIC 2025, which uses 6-digit codes aligned with the UN's ISIC Revision 5. This page shows the NIC 2008 code 19202. The matching NIC 2025 code will be added here once it is mapped from MoSPI's official concordance.
How to read it
An NIC code is built in layers. Each digit narrows the one before it: the division, the group, the class, and finally the 5-digit sub-class. Divisions themselves are grouped under lettered sections.
The broadest numbered layer. Division 19 covers manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products. It sits in section C, manufacturing.
Manufacture of refined petroleum products.
Manufacture of refined petroleum products.
Manufacture of paraffin wax. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 19202 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of paraffin wax, that activity is 19202.
The company incorporation form asks for the main industrial activity of the proposed company by NIC code.
Not GST. GST registration does not use NIC codes; goods and services there are classified by HSN and SAC codes.
Choosing the right code
19202 is for manufacture of paraffin wax. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 1920. Each has its own page with the official wording.
19203Class 1920 · another sub-class of the same class19204Class 1920 · another sub-class of the same class19209Class 1920 · another sub-class of the same class19201Class 1920 · another sub-class of the same classClass 1920 has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 19202.
Questions
Manufacture of paraffin wax, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 1920, manufacture of refined petroleum products.
Class 1920, manufacture of refined petroleum products, has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 19202, they are: 19203 (Bottling of LPG/CNG); 19204 (Manufacture of hard-coal and lignite fuel briquettes); 19209 (Manufacture of other petroleum n.e.c. (includes manufacture of petroleum jelly, micro-crystalline petroleum wax, slack wax, ozokerite, lignite wax, petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen and other residues of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals)); 19201 (Production of liquid and gaseous fuels, illuminating oils, lubricating oils or greases or other products from crude petroleum or bituminous minerals).
In Udyam Registration, which asks for the business activity by NIC code, and in the SPICe+ company incorporation form, which asks for the main industrial activity by NIC code. GST registration does not use NIC codes.
About this page
The section, division, group, class and sub-class on this page are taken word for word from the official document “National Industrial Classification (All Economic Activities) 2008”, Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.
This is reference information on the classification of a business activity. It is not advice on which code your own business should declare, and the official NIC document prevails if the two ever differ. A change in the classification, including the MoSPI concordance to NIC 2025, re-opens this page for checking.
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