HMRC records show 437 businesses trading internationally from Barking and Dagenham over the last six months. It ranks 23 of 32 trading locations in Greater London. 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 7.7% 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
6,041Import declarations▼ 18.1% on the 6 months before
879Export declarations
−7.7%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
437Trading 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 437 businesses.
★ Most active in Barking and DagenhamFiled more customs declarations than any other Barking and Dagenham business over the last six months — roughly 12% of the town's total import activity, mostly in meat and edible offal.
Most active business
GIMA (UK) LIMITED
744 import declarations5 export declarationsIG11 *Ch. 02Ch. 03Ch. 04Ch. 05Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include cheese (excl. fresh cheese, incl. whey cheese, curd, processed cheese, blue-veined cheese and other cheese containing veins produced by "penicillium roqueforti", and grated or powdered cheese), bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the, sweet biscuits.
▼ Expected to slow by 9.2% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity744 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity5 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
NIC ICE LIMITED
148 import declarations11 export declarationsIG11 *Ch. 04Ch. 12Ch. 17Ch. 18Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include chocolate and other preparations containing cocoa, in containers or immediate packings of <= 2 kg (excl. in blocks, slabs or bars and cocoa powder), sugar confectionery not containing cocoa, incl. white chocolate (excl. chewing gum), waffles and wafers.
▼ Expected to slow by 22.9% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity148 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity11 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
SITELA FRUITS LTD
137 import declarationsImports onlyIG11 *Ch. 03Ch. 04Ch. 07Ch. 08Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include sweet biscuits, bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the, smoked fish, incl. fillets (excl. offal, pacific salmon, atlantic salmon, danube salmon, herring, trout, tilapia, catfish, carp, eels, nile perch and snakeheads).
▼ Expected to slow by 3.7% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity137 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
CONCEPT LIVING LTD
98 import declarations22 export declarationsRM10 *Ch. 22Ch. 38Ch. 42Ch. 43Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include carpets and other floor coverings, of man-made textile materials, woven, not tufted or flocked, of pile construction, not made up (excl. kelem, schumacks, karamanie and similar hand-woven rugs), carpets and other floor coverings, of vegetable textile materials or coarse animal hair, woven, not tufted or flocked, not of pile construction, made up (excl. kelem, schumacks, karamanie and similar hand-woven rugs, and floor coverings of coconut fi, carpets and other floor coverings, of wool or fine animal hair, tufted "needle punched", whether or not made up.
▼ Expected to slow by 15.3% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity98 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity22 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
COMPAGNIE DE TRANSPORTS FINANCIERE ET IMMOBILIER (COTRAFI) SA
0 import declarations116 export declarationsRM9 *Ch. 15Ch. 17Ch. 19Ch. 20Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include compounds with nitrogen function (excl. amine-function compounds; oxygen-function amino-compounds; quaternary ammonium salts and hydroxides; lecithin and other phosphoaminolipids; carboxyamide-function compounds; amide-function compounds of carbonic, waters, incl. mineral and aerated, with added sugar, sweetener or flavour, for direct consumption as a beverage, nitrile-function compounds (excl. acrylonitrile, 1-cyanoguanidine "dicyandiamide", fenproporex "inn" and its salts, methadone "inn"-intermediate "4-cyano-2-dimethylamino-4,4-diphenylbutane" and alpha-phenylacetoacetonitrile).
▼ Expected to slow by 100.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity116 in the last 6 months
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What Barking and Dagenham trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 437 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Wine of fresh grapes, incl. fortified wines, and grape must whose fermentation has been arrested by the addition of alcohol, in containers of <= 2 l (excl. sparkling wine)Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and theSugar confectionery not containing cocoa, incl. white chocolate (excl. chewing gum)Sweet biscuitsPrepared or preserved meat and offal of swine, incl. mixtures (excl. hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purpose, in containers of a neWaters, incl. mineral and aerated, with added sugar, sweetener or flavour, for direct consumption as a beverageCheese (excl. fresh cheese, incl. whey cheese, curd, processed cheese, blue-veined cheese and other cheese containing veins produced by "Penicillium roqueforti", and grated or powdered cheese)Fresh or chilled cuts and edible offal of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus
Common questions about trade in Barking and Dagenham
How many businesses import or export from Barking and Dagenham?
HMRC customs records show 437 businesses in Barking and Dagenham (IG11, RM10, RM8, RM9) filed declarations over the last six months — 6,041 import declarations and 879 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Barking and Dagenham businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Barking and Dagenham traders the leading goods are wine of fresh grapes, incl. fortified wines, and grape must whose fermentation has been arrested by the addition of alcohol, in containers of <= 2 l (excl. sparkling wine), bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the, sugar confectionery not containing cocoa, incl. white chocolate (excl. chewing gum), sweet biscuits. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Barking and Dagenham growing?
Import activity is down 18.1% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 7.7%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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