46100

Wholesale Trade on a Fee or Contract Basis

This group encompasses businesses acting as agents that receive commissions, act as intermediaries (brokers), conduct auctions, and engage in other wholesale trading activities in the domestic and international markets on behalf of others. Activities include commission agents, commodity brokers, and all other wholesale traders who sell on behalf of and at the expense of others. This includes activities involved in joint sales and purchases or conducting transactions on behalf of companies, including via the internet. It also covers agents involved in the wholesale trade of agricultural raw materials, live animals, textile raw materials and semi-finished goods, fuel, ores, metals, and chemicals, including fertilizers, food, beverages, and tobacco, textiles, clothing, fur, footwear, and leather goods, wood and building materials, machinery, including office machinery and computers, industrial equipment, ships, aircraft, furniture, household goods, and hardware. This group also includes wholesale auction houses and commission agents for radioactive materials and ionizing radiation generators. It includes the operation of commodity auction markets. Excluded from this group is the wholesale trade of automobiles and motorcycles, which is classified in groups 451 to 454.