The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For production of worked pearls, that activity is 32113.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
32113 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for production of worked pearls: a sub-class of class 3211, manufacture of jewellery and related articles, 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 321Class 3211Sub-class 32113
Production of worked pearls
Sub-class 32113 · Class 3211 · Group 321 · 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.
321135 digits: 32 + 1 + 1 + 3NIC 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 32113. 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 jewellery, bijouterie and related articles.
Manufacture of jewellery and related articles. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Production of worked pearls. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
32113 is a sub-class of class 3211, manufacture of jewellery and related articles. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - manufacture of non-metal watch bands (fabric, leather, plastic etc.), see 1512
- - manufacture of articles of base metal plated with precious metal (except imitation jewellery), see division 25
- - manufacture of watch cases, see 2652
- - manufacture of (non-precious) metal watch bands, see 3212
- - manufacture of imitation jewellery, see 3212
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 32113 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For production of worked pearls, that activity is 32113.
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
32113 is for production of worked pearls. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 3211. Each has its own page with the official wording.
32114Class 3211 · another sub-class of the same class32119Class 3211 · another sub-class of the same class32111Class 3211 · another sub-class of the same class32112Class 3211 · another sub-class of the same classClass 3211 has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 32113.
Questions
Production of worked pearls, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 3211, manufacture of jewellery and related articles.
Class 3211, manufacture of jewellery and related articles, has 5 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 32113, they are: 32114 (Manufacture of coins, including coins for use as legal tender, whether or not of precious metal); 32119 (Manufacture of other articles of gold, silver and other precious and semi precious metal and stone); 32111 (Manufacture of jewellery of gold, silver and other precious or base metal metal clad with precious metals or precious or semi-precious stones, or of combinations of precious metal and precious or semi-precious stones or of other materials); 32112 (Working of diamonds and other precious and semi-precious stones including the working of industrial quality stones and synthetic or reconstructed precious or semi-precious stones).
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 3211, 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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