NAICS Canada 419120—Wholesale trade agents and brokers

Where 419120 sits

1. 41 Wholesale trade
2. 419 Business-to-business electronic markets, and agents and brokers
3. 4191 Business-to-business electronic markets, and agents and brokers
4. 41912 Wholesale trade agents and brokers
5. 419120 Wholesale trade agents and brokers

Description

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in buying and/or selling products, owned by others, on a commission basis. These establishments may be known as commission merchants, import agents or brokers, export agents or brokers, manufacturers' agents, purchasing agents, selling agents, and they may deal in any type of product. These establishments usually bring sellers and buyers together or undertake commercial transactions on behalf of a principal, without taking title of the goods bought or sold.

What 419120 includes

• Electrical wiring supplies and electrical construction materials, wholesale agents and brokers
• Ferrous and non-ferrous metal ores and concentrates, combined, wholesale agents and brokers
• Paper and paper products (except newsprint and stationery and office supplies), wholesale agents and brokers

What 419120 excludes

• Acting as agents and brokers and wholesaling products, owned by others, using the internet or other electronic means (see 419110 business-to-business electronic markets (us))
• Buying and selling insurance, on a commission basis (see 524210 insurance agencies and brokerages (us))
• Buying and selling real estate for others, on a fee or commission basis (see 53121 offices of real estate agents and brokers)
• Operating as shipping agents (see 48851 freight transportation arrangement)
• Trading commodities and commodity futures, which are usually listed on a commodity exchange (see 5231 securities and commodity contracts intermediation and brokerage)
• Wholesaling merchandise on own account, merchant wholesaler-distributors (classified according to the merchandise line or lines sold by the merchant wholesaler-distributor)

Example activities

• import-export agents and brokers, wholesale trade
• petroleum brokers, wholesale
• purchasing agents, wholesale trade
• agents and brokers, wholesale trade
• agricultural feeds, wholesale agents and brokers
• agricultural supplies (except feed and seeds) and chemicals, wholesale agents and brokers
• alarm apparatus, electric, wholesale agents and brokers
• alcoholic beverages, wholesale agents and brokers
• amusement and sporting goods, wholesale agents and brokers
• automobiles, wholesale agents and brokers
• book, periodical and newspaper, wholesale agents and brokers
• brick, tile, cement, wholesale agents and brokers
• cannabis products wholesale agents and brokers
• ceramic wall and floor tile, wholesale agents and brokers
• chemicals (except agricultural), wholesale agents and brokers
• china, glassware, crockery and pottery, wholesale agents and brokers
• coal brokers, wholesale
• commercial brokers, general, wholesale
• commission agency, general, wholesale
• commission merchants
• commission merchants of amusement and sporting goods
• commission merchants of drugs
• commission merchants of office and store machinery and equipment
• commission salesman, representing several products of companies

419120 in other systems