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Rye importers & exporters

Q: How many businesses import or export from Rye?

HMRC customs records show 72 businesses in Rye (TN31) filed declarations over the last six months — 332 import declarations and 353 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.

Q: What do Rye businesses import most?

The most common category is electrical machinery and electronics. Across all Rye traders the leading goods are woven fabrics of flax, containing >= 85% flax by weight, dyed, made of yarn of different colours, or printed, trade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the like, artificial flowers, foliage and fruit and parts thereof, and articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit, by binding, glueing, fitting into one another or similar methods (excl. of plastics), articles of leather or composition leather (excl. saddlery and harness bags; cases and similar containers; apparel and clothing accessories; whips, riding-crops and similar of heading 6602; furniture; lighting appliances; toys; games; sports articles. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.

72 businesses in Rye appear in HMRC customs records for the last six months. It ranks 11 of 22 trading locations in East Sussex. Most of that activity sits in electrical machinery and electronics, machinery and mechanical appliances, optical and medical instruments. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to pick up by around 11.1% over the next three months.

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332Import declarations▼ 7.0% on the 6 months before

353Export declarations

+11.1%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data

72Trading businesses

Top 5 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 72 businesses.

★ Most active in RyeFiled more customs declarations than any other Rye business over the last six months — roughly 29% of the town's total import activity, mostly in soaps and cleaning products.

Most active business

MERCHANT & MILLS LTD

96 import declarations 59 export declarations TN31 *Ch. 34Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 42 Active in 6 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include woven fabrics of flax, containing >= 85% flax by weight, dyed, made of yarn of different colours, or printed, trade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the like, plain woven fabrics of cotton, containing >= 85% cotton by weight and weighing > 100 g to 200 g/m , printed.

▲ Expected to increase by 29.7% 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 activity59 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

EBROFROST UK LIMITED

20 import declarations 8 export declarations TN31 *Ch. 11Ch. 19Ch. 30Ch. 39 Active in 6 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include pasta, cooked or otherwise prepared (excl. stuffed), groats and meal of wheat, parts of machinery for the industrial preparation or manufacture of food or drink, n.e.s..

▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity20 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity8 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

KINGSVIEW OPTICAL LTD

14 import declarations 11 export declarations TN31 *Ch. 40Ch. 42Ch. 48Ch. 70 Active in 6 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include lenses, prisms, mirrors and other optical elements, of any material, unmounted (excl. such elements of glass not optically worked, contact lenses and spectacle lenses), rear-view mirrors, whether or not framed, for vehicles, parts and accessories for instruments, appliances and machines for measuring and checking, n.e.s..

▲ Expected to increase by 25.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity14 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity11 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

EW PRODUCTION SERVICES LTD

19 import declarations 126 export declarations TN31 *Ch. 34Ch. 38Ch. 39Ch. 40 Active in 6 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include electric luminaires and lighting fittings, n.e.s., articles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire), household hand tools, non-mechanical, with working parts of base metal, n.e.s..

▼ Expected to slow by 6.7% 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 activity126 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

LRI SOLUTIONS LTD

14 import declarations 33 export declarations TN31 *Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 41Ch. 42 Active in 6 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include articles of leather or composition leather (excl. saddlery and harness bags; cases and similar containers; apparel and clothing accessories; whips, riding-crops and similar of heading 6602; furniture; lighting appliances; toys; games; sports articles, seats for motor vehicles, 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.

▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity14 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity33 in the last 6 months

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What Rye trades

The most frequently declared goods across all 72 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.

Woven fabrics of flax, containing >= 85% flax by weight, dyed, made of yarn of different colours, or printedTrade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the likeArtificial flowers, foliage and fruit and parts thereof, and articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit, by binding, glueing, fitting into one another or similar methods (excl. of plastics)Articles of leather or composition leather (excl. saddlery and harness bags; cases and similar containers; apparel and clothing accessories; whips, riding-crops and similar of heading 6602; furniture; lighting appliances; toys; games; sports articlesPlain woven fabrics of cotton, containing >= 85% cotton by weight and weighing > 100 g to 200 g/m , printedPaintings, e.g. oil paintings, watercolours and pastels, and drawings executed entirely by hand (excl. over 100 years old, and technical drawings and the like of heading 4906, and hand-painted or hand-decorated manufactured articles)Woven fabrics of flax, containing predominantly, but < 85% flax by weight, dyed, made of yarn of different colours, or printedFood preparations, n.e.s.

Common questions about trade in Rye

How many businesses import or export from Rye?

HMRC customs records show 72 businesses in Rye (TN31) filed declarations over the last six months — 332 import declarations and 353 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.

What do Rye businesses import most?

The most common category is electrical machinery and electronics. Across all Rye traders the leading goods are woven fabrics of flax, containing >= 85% flax by weight, dyed, made of yarn of different colours, or printed, trade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the like, artificial flowers, foliage and fruit and parts thereof, and articles made of artificial flowers, foliage or fruit, by binding, glueing, fitting into one another or similar methods (excl. of plastics), articles of leather or composition leather (excl. saddlery and harness bags; cases and similar containers; apparel and clothing accessories; whips, riding-crops and similar of heading 6602; furniture; lighting appliances; toys; games; sports articles. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.

Is trade from Rye growing?

Import activity is down 7.0% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to rise by roughly 11.1%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.

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Rye importers & exporters

Top 5 businesses by 6-month activity Free tier

MERCHANT & MILLS LTD

EBROFROST UK LIMITED

KINGSVIEW OPTICAL LTD

EW PRODUCTION SERVICES LTD

LRI SOLUTIONS LTD

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What Rye trades

Common questions about trade in Rye

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