Over the last six months, 230 East Devon businesses filed customs declarations. That puts it third in Devon for trade activity. Most of that activity sits in machinery and mechanical appliances, electrical machinery and electronics, optical, photographic and medical instruments. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to ease back by around 9.9% 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
2,285Import declarations▼ 16.2% on the 6 months before
1,298Export declarations
−9.9%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
230Trading 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 230 businesses.
★ Most active in East DevonFiled more customs declarations than any other East Devon business over the last six months — roughly 10% of the town's total import activity, mostly in dairy, eggs and honey.
Most active business
KANDYTOYS HOLDINGS LIMITED
223 import declarations97 export declarationsEX5 *Ch. 04Ch. 05Ch. 17Ch. 18Active 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, tables for casino games, automatic bowling alley equipment, and other funfair, table or parlour games, incl. pintables (excl. operated by any means of payment, billiards, video game consoles and machines, and playing cards), inflatable balls.
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity223 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity97 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
MALLORY INTERNATIONAL LTD
27 import declarations111 export declarationsEX5 *Ch. 25Ch. 30Ch. 32Ch. 34Active 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, printed books, brochures and similar printed matter (excl. those in single sheets; dictionaries, encyclopaedias, periodicals and publications which are essentially devoted to advertising), articles and equipment for sport and outdoor games n.e.s; swimming and paddling pools.
▼ Expected to slow by 7.7% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity27 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity111 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
CARLING TECHNOLOGIES LTD
66 import declarations72 export declarationsEX5 *Ch. 23Ch. 32Ch. 39Ch. 40Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include ink, whether or not concentrated or solid (excl. printing ink), data-processing machines, automatic, portable, weighing <= 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display (excl. peripheral units), data-processing machines, automatic, presented in the form of systems "comprising at least a central processing unit, one input unit and one output unit" (excl. portable weighing <= 10 kg and excl. peripheral units).
▼ Expected to slow by 37.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity66 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity72 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
SPAREX LIMITED
96 import declarations13 export declarationsEX5 *Ch. 29Ch. 32Ch. 34Ch. 35Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include parts and accessories, 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 special purpose motor v, transmission shafts, incl. cam shafts and crank shafts, and cranks, toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements presented separately; parts of transmission shafts, ball screws, couplings and other articles of heading 8483, n.e.s..
▼ Expected to slow by 60.2% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity96 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity13 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
NUCO TOOLS LIMITED
52 import declarations49 export declarationsEX13 *Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 68Ch. 73Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include parts of ball-point pens, felt-tipped and other porous-tipped pens and markers, fountain pens and propelling pencils n.e.s, pencil-holders, pen-holders and the like, and duplicating stylos, dividing heads and other special attachments for machine tools, n.e.s., vices, clamps and the like (excl. accessories for and parts of machine tools or water-jet cutting machines).
▼ Expected to slow by 100.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity52 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity49 in the last 6 months
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What East Devon trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 230 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kindsParts and accessories, 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 special purpose motor vArticles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire)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 contaFrozen fruit and nuts, uncooked or cooked by steaming or boiling in water, whether or not sweetened (excl. strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, loganberries, black, white or red currants and gooseberries)Footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics or composition leather, with uppers of leather (excl. covering the ankle, incorporating a protective metal toecap, sports footwear, orthopaedic footwear and toy footwear)Food preparations, n.e.s.Sweet potatoes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets
Common questions about trade in East Devon
How many businesses import or export from East Devon?
HMRC customs records show 230 businesses in East Devon (EX13, EX14, EX5) filed declarations over the last six months — 2,285 import declarations and 1,298 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do East Devon businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all East Devon traders the leading goods are 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, parts and accessories, 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 special purpose motor v, articles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire), 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. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from East Devon growing?
Import activity is down 16.2% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 9.9%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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