Over the last six months, 218 Ashford businesses filed customs declarations. It ranks 7 of 48 trading locations in Kent. 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 1.0% 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
2,073Import declarations▲ 9.7% on the 6 months before
1,183Export declarations
−1.0%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
218Trading 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 218 businesses.
★ Most active in AshfordFiled more customs declarations than any other Ashford business over the last six months — roughly 24% of the town's total import activity, mostly in meat and edible offal.
Most active business
SYSCO GB LIMITED
495 import declarations503 export declarationsTN25 *Ch. 02Ch. 03Ch. 04Ch. 07Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include 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, potatoes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, frozen 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).
▲ Expected to increase by 55.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity495 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity503 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
PRESSURE WELDING MACHINES LTD
3 import declarations42 export declarationsTN26 *Ch. 73Ch. 82Ch. 83Ch. 84Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include machine tools for working metal wire, without removing material (excl. wire bending machines of heading 8461 and machines for working in the hand), parts of machinery of chapter 84, not intended for a specific purpose, n.e.s., parts of machines and apparatus for soldering or welding or for hot spraying of metals, metal carbides or cermets, n.e.s. (excl. wire bonders of a kind used for the manufacture of semiconductor devices).
▼ Expected to slow by 100.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity3 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity42 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
COTY MANUFACTURING UK LTD
254 import declarations41 export declarationsTN25 *Ch. 13Ch. 15Ch. 21Ch. 25Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include lip make-up preparations, chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries, incl. those consisting of mixtures of natural products, n.e.s., 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 care.
▼ Expected to slow by 4.5% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity254 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity41 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
ICU MEDICAL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
97 import declarations32 export declarationsTN25 *Ch. 32Ch. 39Ch. 42Ch. 48Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical or veterinary sciences, n.e.s., ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus, incl. parts and accessories, needles, catheters, cannulae and the like, used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences (excl. syringes, tubular metal needles and needles for sutures).
▼ Expected to slow by 5.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity97 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity32 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
COTY UK&I LTD
77 import declarations2 export declarationsTN25 *Ch. 12Ch. 13Ch. 29Ch. 33Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include perfumes and toilet waters (excl. aftershave lotions, personal deodorants and hair lotions), lip make-up preparations, eye make-up preparations.
▼ Expected to slow by 6.5% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity77 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity2 in the last 6 months
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Every importer and exporter in TN25 / TN26 / TN27 with monthly activity, 24-month indicators, forecasts, Companies House records, AI research and validated contact reveals.
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What Ashford trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 218 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical or veterinary sciences, n.e.s.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 theWine 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)Frozen 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)Vegetables, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen (excl. potatoes, leguminous vegetables, spinach, New Zealand spinach, orache spinach, and sweetcorn)Articles of plastics and articles of other materials of heading 3901 to 3914, n.e.s (excl. goods of 9619)Live plants, incl. their roots, and mushroom spawn (excl. bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, incl. chicory plants and roots, unrooted cuttings and slips, fruit and nut trees, rhododendrons, azaleas and roses)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 care
Common questions about trade in Ashford
How many businesses import or export from Ashford?
HMRC customs records show 218 businesses in Ashford (TN25, TN26, TN27) filed declarations over the last six months — 2,073 import declarations and 1,183 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Ashford businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Ashford traders the leading goods are instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical or veterinary sciences, n.e.s., 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, 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), frozen 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). You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Ashford growing?
Import activity is up 9.7% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 1.0%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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