Know who is already importing — before your competitors do.
Every business here appears because HMRC recorded them clearing goods through UK customs — no scraping, no guesswork. Search by town, see two years of their trading history, and find out who is about to need a freight forwarder.
Most prospecting lists are guesswork — someone scraped a directory and hoped. Every business on this site appears because HMRC recorded them clearing goods through UK customs.
Straight from HMRC
Official customs declarations under the Open Government Licence. If a company is listed, it genuinely traded.
Updated every night
Our pipeline checks HMRC at 03:00 daily, so new months land the day they are published.
Companies House built in
Jump from any business straight to its official record — status, directors, filing history.
Emails and LinkedIn
Reveal validated contacts for the people who actually make freight decisions.
Who is about to trade
Two years of monthly history behind every forecast, so you can see who is ramping up before they go looking for a forwarder.
And who is going quiet
Falling activity is just as useful — a retention call, or a competitor's account coming loose.
What you actually get
Every business looks like this
A real listing from the live data — two years of monthly activity, a forecast, and one click to Companies House, AI research and verified contacts.
★ Most active in Aberdeen CityFiled more customs declarations than any other Aberdeen City business over the last six months — roughly 1% of the town's total import activity, mostly in coffee, tea and spices.
Most active business
AMAZON EU SARL
2712 import declarations1318 export declarationsAB10 *Ch. 09Ch. 10Ch. 12Ch. 15Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds, travelling-bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, shopping-bags, map-cases, tool bags, sports bags, jewellery boxes, cutlery cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar conta, footwear with outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastics (excl. covering the ankle or with upper straps or thongs assembled to the sole by means of plugs, waterproof footwear of heading 6401, sports footwear, orthopaedic footwear and toy footwear).
▼ Expected to slow by 19.6% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity2712 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity1318 in the last 6 months
Earlier monthsLast 6 monthsOur forecast for the next 3
✦ Research this businessOpen their official record, run AI research, or find the people who make the freight decisions.
Live example from Aberdeen City, Aberdeen City. The buttons below it open the login — accounts include full search and lead reveals.
Data Insights
Every UK county's import & export activity, refreshed every 24 hours
Free, public trade intelligence: six-month importer and exporter counts for every county and major town, plus a three-month forecast modelled on 24 months of HMRC history. Our pipeline checks for new HMRC releases every night at 03:00.
Refreshed every 24 hours · last run 05/10/2026 at 06:14HMRC release in view: Aug 26Snapshot: 2026-10-04.1
Every night we pull the latest HMRC UK Trade Info importer and exporter records, map postcodes to towns and counties, and version the snapshot so trends are auditable.
02 · MODEL
Six-month activity + forecast
Each county, town and business gets a six-month activity profile and a three-month forecast modelled on 24 months of history with seasonality.
03 · PROSPECT
Reveal & qualify
Log in to see every business in a location, open Companies House records, run AI research and reveal validated contacts.
Questions
Frequently asked
Where does PTA Exports get its UK import and export data?
From the official HMRC UK Trade Info dataset of customs declarations, refreshed by our pipeline every 24 hours. HMRC publishes trader-level detail for non-EU trade, monthly, roughly two months in arrears.
How often is the data updated?
Our pipeline checks for new HMRC releases every night at 03:00. New months appear the moment HMRC publishes them; every page shows the exact snapshot it was built from.
How are the 3-month forecasts calculated?
Each forecast is modelled from 24 months of monthly declaration counts using seasonal trend analysis. Forecasts are estimates produced by PTA Exports, not HMRC figures.
Who is PTA Exports for?
Freight forwarders, customs brokers and logistics sales teams prospecting UK businesses that already import or export — searchable by county, town, HMRC category and activity level.