The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of sports goods, that activity is 32300.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
32300 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for manufacture of sports goods: a sub-class of class 3230, manufacture of sports goods, within division 32, other manufacturing. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 32Group 323Class 3230Sub-class 32300
Manufacture of sports goods
Sub-class 32300 · Class 3230 · Group 323 · Division 32 · 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.
323005 digits: 32 + 3 + 0 + 0NIC 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 32300. 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 32 covers other manufacturing. It sits in section C, manufacturing.
Manufacture of sports goods.
Manufacture of sports goods. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Manufacture of sports goods. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
32300 is a sub-class of class 3230, manufacture of sports goods. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class includes the manufacture of outdoor and indoor sporting and athletic goods of any material except apparel and footwear
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of boat sails, see 1322
- - manufacture of sports apparel, see 1410
- - manufacture of saddlery and harness, see 1512
- - manufacture of whips and riding crops, see 1512
- - manufacture of sports footwear, see 1520
- - manufacture of sporting weapons and ammunition, see 2520
- - manufacture of metal weights as used for weightlifting, see 2599
- - manufacture of sports vehicles other than toboggans and the like, see divisions 29 and 30
- - manufacture of boats, see 3012
- - manufacture of billiard tables, see 3240
- - manufacture of ear and noise plugs (e.g. for swimming and noise protection), see 3290
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 32300 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For manufacture of sports goods, that activity is 32300.
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.
Questions
Manufacture of sports goods, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 3230, manufacture of sports goods.
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, and the explanatory note for class 3230, 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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