HMRC records show 1,540 businesses trading internationally from Southwark over the last six months. It ranks 8 of 32 trading locations in Greater London. Most of that activity sits in electrical machinery and electronics, machinery and mechanical appliances, plastics and plastic articles. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to pick up by around 0.6% over the next three months.
Refreshed every 24 hours · last run 25/08/2026 at 11:41HMRC release in view: Jun 26Snapshot: 2026-08-25.1
17,042Import declarations▼ 6.1% on the 6 months before
5,301Export declarations
+0.6%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
1,540Trading 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 1,540 businesses.
★ Most active in SouthwarkFiled more customs declarations than any other Southwark business over the last six months — roughly 7% of the town's total import activity, mostly in sugar and confectionery.
Most active business
DECATHLON UK LIMITED
1224 import declarations31 export declarationsSE16 *Ch. 17Ch. 18Ch. 19Ch. 20Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include 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), 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.
▲ Expected to increase by 7.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity1224 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity31 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
LEATHAMS LIMITED
234 import declarations9 export declarationsSE1 *Ch. 02Ch. 04Ch. 07Ch. 08Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include vegetables and mixtures of vegetables, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar, non-frozen (excl. preserved by sugar, homogenised vegetables of subheading 2005.10, and tomatoes, mushrooms, truffles, potatoes, peas "pisum sativum", beans "vign, 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), fresh cheese "unripened or uncured cheese", incl. whey cheese, and curd.
▼ Expected to slow by 8.7% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity234 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity9 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
KIRIL MISCHEFF LIMITED
490 import declarations40 export declarationsSE1 *Ch. 07Ch. 08Ch. 09Ch. 12Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include vegetables, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen (excl. potatoes, leguminous vegetables, spinach, new zealand spinach, orache spinach, and sweetcorn), fruit and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or spirit (excl. prepared or preserved with vinegar, preserved with sugar but not laid in syrup, jams, fruit jellies, marm, tomatoes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid (excl. whole or in pieces).
▲ Expected to increase by 10.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity490 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity40 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
NATOORA LTD
436 import declarations13 export declarationsSE16 *Ch. 02Ch. 04Ch. 07Ch. 08Active in 6 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), tomatoes, whole or in pieces, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, fresh or chilled vegetables n.e.s..
▲ Expected to increase by 7.6% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity436 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity13 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
SHELL UK LIMITED
302 import declarations124 export declarationsSE1 *Ch. 15Ch. 22Ch. 25Ch. 27Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include medium oils and preparations, of petroleum or bituminous minerals, not containing biodiesel, n.e.s., appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like (excl. pressure-reducing valves, valves for the control of pneumatic power transmission, check "non-return" valves and safety or relief valves), lubricant preparations, incl. cutting-oil preparations, bolt or nut release preparations, anti-rust or anti-corrosion preparations and mould-release preparations, based on lubricants and containing petroleum oil or bituminous mineral oil (excl. prepa.
▼ Expected to slow by 30.7% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity302 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity124 in the last 6 months
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What Southwark trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 1,540 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)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)Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kindsPrinted books, brochures and similar printed matter (excl. those in single sheets; dictionaries, encyclopaedias, periodicals and publications which are essentially devoted to advertising)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 theArticles of plastics and articles of other materials of heading 3901 to 3914, n.e.s (excl. goods of 9619)Beauty or make-up preparations and preparations for the care of the skin (other than medicaments), incl. sunscreen or suntan preparations (excl. medicaments, lip and eye make-up preparations, manicure or pedicure preparations and make-up or skin careSparkling wine of fresh grapes
Common questions about trade in Southwark
How many businesses import or export from Southwark?
HMRC customs records show 1,540 businesses in Southwark (SE1, SE15, SE16, SE17) filed declarations over the last six months — 17,042 import declarations and 5,301 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Southwark businesses import most?
The most common category is electrical machinery and electronics. Across all Southwark 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), 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), 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). You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Southwark growing?
Import activity is down 6.1% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to rise by roughly 0.6%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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