Over the last six months, 536 Watford (Watford) businesses filed customs declarations. That makes it the busiest trading location in Hertfordshire. 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 7.4% 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
13,392Import declarations▼ 18.0% on the 6 months before
6,448Export declarations
−7.4%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
536Trading 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 536 businesses.
★ Most active in Watford (Watford)Filed more customs declarations than any other Watford (Watford) business over the last six months — roughly 12% of the town's total import activity, mostly in meat and edible offal.
Most active business
COSTCO WHOLESALE UK LTD
1654 import declarations2083 export declarationsWD25 *Ch. 02Ch. 03Ch. 04Ch. 05Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include 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), 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, 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).
▼ Expected to slow by 6.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity1654 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity2083 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
MEDTRONIC LIMITED
326 import declarations157 export declarationsWD18 *Ch. 18Ch. 28Ch. 30Ch. 31Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials, incl. sterile absorbable surgical or dental yarns, and sterile tissue adhesives for surgical wound closure; sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria tents; sterile absorbable surgical or denta, wadding, gauze, bandages and the like, e.g. dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices, impregnated or covered with pharmaceutical substances or put up for retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary purposes (excl. adhesive dressings and ot, dried glands and other organs for organo-therapeutic uses, whether or not powdered; heparin and its salts; other human or animal substances prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, n.e.s..
▼ Expected to slow by 14.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity326 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity157 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
SENTRY AEROSPARES LIMITED
296 import declarations174 export declarationsWD18 *Ch. 30Ch. 32Ch. 34Ch. 38Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include vacuum pumps, machinery, plant and equipment for making hot drinks or for cooking or heating food (excl. domestic appliances), inflatable rafts.
▼ Expected to slow by 15.2% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity296 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity174 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
PORCELANOSA UK LIMITED
277 import declarations30 export declarationsWD25 *Ch. 06Ch. 08Ch. 15Ch. 32Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include 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), ceramic flags and paving, hearth or wall tiles, of a water absorption coefficient by weight <= 0,5 % (excl. refractory, mosaic cubes and finishing ceramics), ceramic flags and paving, hearth or wall tiles, of a water absorption coefficient by weight > 10 % (excl. refractory, mosaic cubes and finishing ceramics).
▼ Expected to slow by 2.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity277 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity30 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
ANKER TECHNOLOGY (UK) LTD
246 import declarations54 export declarationsWD17 *Ch. 29Ch. 32Ch. 34Ch. 37Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include pumps for liquids, power-driven (excl. those of subheading 8413.11 and 8413.19, fuel, lubricating or cooling medium pumps for internal combustion piston engine, concrete pumps, general reciprocating or rotary positive displacement pumps and centrifug, input or output units for automatic data-processing machines, whether or not containing storage units in the same housing, units for automatic data-processing machines (excl. processing units, input or output units and storage units).
▲ Expected to increase by 21.2% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity246 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity54 in the last 6 months
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What Watford (Watford) trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 536 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)Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kindsTravelling-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 contaPerfumes and toilet waters (excl. aftershave lotions, personal deodorants and hair lotions)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 theBeauty 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 careJerseys, pullovers, cardigans, waistcoats and similar articles, of cotton, knitted or crocheted (excl. wadded waistcoats)Food preparations, n.e.s.
Common questions about trade in Watford (Watford)
How many businesses import or export from Watford (Watford)?
HMRC customs records show 536 businesses in Watford (Watford) (WD17, WD18, WD19, WD24) filed declarations over the last six months — 13,392 import declarations and 6,448 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Watford (Watford) businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Watford (Watford) 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), 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, 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, perfumes and toilet waters (excl. aftershave lotions, personal deodorants and hair lotions). You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Watford (Watford) growing?
Import activity is down 18.0% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 7.4%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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