96 businesses in Hartlepool appear in HMRC customs records for the last six months. That puts it third in County Durham 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 11.8% 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
921Import declarations▼ 9.2% on the 6 months before
528Export declarations
−11.8%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
96Trading 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 96 businesses.
★ Most active in HartlepoolFiled more customs declarations than any other Hartlepool business over the last six months — roughly 14% of the town's total import activity, mostly in coffee, tea and spices.
Most active business
NATARA GLOBAL LIMITED
130 import declarations223 export declarationsTS25 *Ch. 09Ch. 12Ch. 13Ch. 18Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include essential oils, whether or not terpeneless, incl. concretes and absolutes (excl. those of citrus fruit and mint), butanoic acids, pentanoic acids, their salts and esters, extracted oleoresins; concentrates of essential oils in fats, fixed oils, waxes and the like, obtained by enfleurage or maceration; terpenic by-products of the deterpenation of essential oils; aromatic aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of ess.
▼ Expected to slow by 17.7% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity130 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity223 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
AIGOSTAR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
57 import declarationsImports onlyTS25 *Ch. 14Ch. 28Ch. 33Ch. 39Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include made-up articles of textile materials, incl. dress patterns, n.e.s., 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, sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins and napkin liners, and similar articles, of any material.
▼ Expected to slow by 27.3% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity57 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
OAKWADE LIMITED
23 import declarations23 export declarationsTS24 *Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 69Ch. 73Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include mechanical seals, articles of nickel, n.e.s., parts of pumps for liquids, n.e.s..
▼ Expected to slow by 21.4% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity23 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity23 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
HART BIOLOGICALS LIMITED
30 import declarations12 export declarationsTS25 *Ch. 21Ch. 29Ch. 30Ch. 35Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses, diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, whether or not put up in the form of kits (excl. for malaria, for zika and other diseases transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus a, antisera and other blood fractions.
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity30 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity12 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
ISOCOM COMPONENTS 2004 LIMITED
19 import declarations18 export declarationsTS25 *Ch. 39Ch. 84Ch. 85Ch. 90Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include parts and accessories for machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of semiconductor boules or wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits or flat panel displays, and for machines and apparatus.
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity19 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity18 in the last 6 months
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What Hartlepool trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 96 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Essential oils, whether or not terpeneless, incl. concretes and absolutes (excl. those of citrus fruit and mint)Butanoic acids, pentanoic acids, their salts and estersExtracted oleoresins; concentrates of essential oils in fats, fixed oils, waxes and the like, obtained by enfleurage or maceration; terpenic by-products of the deterpenation of essential oils; aromatic aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of essArticles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire)Brakes and servo-brakes and their parts, for tractors, motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons, motor vehicles for the transport of goods and speciHeterocyclic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atom[s] only (excl. those containing an unfused pyrazole, imidazole, pyridine or triazine ring, whether or not hydrogenated, a quinoline or isoquinoline ring-system, not further fused, whether or not hydrogAcyclic aldehydes, without other oxygen function (excl. methanal [formaldehyde] and ethanal [acetaldehyde])Cyclanic, cyclenic or cycloterpenic ketones, without other oxygen function (excl. cyclohexanone, methylcyclohexanones, ionones and methylionones)
Common questions about trade in Hartlepool
How many businesses import or export from Hartlepool?
HMRC customs records show 96 businesses in Hartlepool (TS24, TS25, TS26, TS27) filed declarations over the last six months — 921 import declarations and 528 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Hartlepool businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Hartlepool traders the leading goods are essential oils, whether or not terpeneless, incl. concretes and absolutes (excl. those of citrus fruit and mint), butanoic acids, pentanoic acids, their salts and esters, extracted oleoresins; concentrates of essential oils in fats, fixed oils, waxes and the like, obtained by enfleurage or maceration; terpenic by-products of the deterpenation of essential oils; aromatic aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of ess, articles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire). You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Hartlepool growing?
Import activity is down 9.2% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 11.8%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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