Over the last six months, 526 Reading businesses filed customs declarations. That puts it second in Berkshire for trade activity. Most of that activity sits in machinery and mechanical appliances, electrical machinery and electronics, plastics and plastic articles. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to ease back by around 10.8% over the next three months.
Refreshed every 24 hours · last run 05/10/2026 at 06:14HMRC release in view: Aug 26Snapshot: 2026-10-04.1
8,836Import declarations▼ 14.0% on the 6 months before
3,583Export declarations
−10.8%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
526Trading businesses
Top 10 businesses by 6-month activity Free tier
Ranked by declaration volume and months active. Hover any bar in the 24-month indicators for that month's figures. Log in for keyword search and HMRC category filters across all 526 businesses.
★ Most active in ReadingFiled more customs declarations than any other Reading business over the last six months — roughly 16% of the town's total import activity, mostly in plants and cut flowers.
Most active business
PRIMARK STORES LTD
1423 import declarations502 export declarationsRG1 *Ch. 06Ch. 09Ch. 15Ch. 17Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include 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, 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, 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 15.9% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity1423 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity502 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
ORACLE EMEA LTD
185 import declarations53 export declarationsRG6 *Ch. 33Ch. 39Ch. 42Ch. 44Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include storage units for automatic data-processing machines, parts and accessories of automatic data-processing machines or for other machines of heading 8471, n.e.s., parts and accessories of non-electronic calculators for accounting machines, cash registers or other machines, incorporating a calculating device, of heading 8470, n.e.s..
▲ Expected to increase by 3.7% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity185 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity53 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
STARLINE HOLDINGS TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
121 import declarations65 export declarationsRG2 *Ch. 38Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 48Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include non-threaded articles, of iron or steel, threaded screws and bolts, of iron or steel, whether or not with their nuts and washers (excl. coach screws and other wood screws, screw hooks and screw rings, self-tapping screws, lag screws, stoppers, plugs and the like, threaded), articles of aluminium, n.e.s..
▼ Expected to slow by 34.9% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity121 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity65 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
ASSA ABLOY GLOBAL SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED
120 import declarations57 export declarationsRG2 *Ch. 33Ch. 39Ch. 44Ch. 48Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include metal furniture for offices (excl. seats), armoured or reinforced safes, strongboxes and doors and safe deposit lockers for strongrooms, cash or deed boxes and the like, of base metal, locks of base metal (excl. padlocks and locks for motor vehicles or furniture).
▲ Expected to increase by 26.4% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity120 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity57 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
BAYER PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
133 import declarations22 export declarationsRG2 *Ch. 12Ch. 17Ch. 21Ch. 28Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include food preparations, n.e.s., medicaments consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic purposes, put up in measured doses "incl. those for transdermal administration" or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. containing antibiotics, hormones or ste, immunological products, put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. diagnostic reagents).
▼ Expected to slow by 7.4% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity133 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity22 in the last 6 months
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What Reading trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 526 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Data-processing machines, automatic, portable, weighing <= 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display (excl. peripheral units)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 contaParts and accessories of automatic data-processing machines or for other machines of heading 8471, n.e.s.Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kindsStorage units for automatic data-processing machinesProcessing units for automatic data-processing machines, whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units, output units (excl. those of heading 8471.41 or 8471.49 and excl. peripheralArticles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire)Magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, n.e.s.
Common questions about trade in Reading
How many businesses import or export from Reading?
HMRC customs records show 526 businesses in Reading (RG1, RG2, RG30, RG31) filed declarations over the last six months — 8,836 import declarations and 3,583 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Reading businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Reading traders the leading goods are data-processing machines, automatic, portable, weighing <= 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display (excl. peripheral units), 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, parts and accessories of automatic data-processing machines or for other machines of heading 8471, n.e.s., 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. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Reading growing?
Import activity is down 14.0% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 10.8%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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