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Chatham importers & exporters

Q: How many businesses import or export from Chatham?

HMRC customs records show 99 businesses in Chatham (ME4, ME5) filed declarations over the last six months — 546 import declarations and 222 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.

Q: What do Chatham businesses import most?

The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Chatham traders the leading goods are tables for casino games, automatic bowling alley equipment, and other funfair, table or parlour games, incl. pintables (excl. operated by any means of payment, billiards, video game consoles and machines, and playing cards), sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products, 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), meat or offal of fowls of the species "gallus domesticus", prepared or preserved (excl. sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight of <=. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.

Q: Is trade from Chatham growing?

Import activity is down 2.7% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 5.1%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.

Q: How do I get contact details for Chatham importers?

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Over the last six months, 99 Chatham businesses filed customs declarations. It ranks 25 of 48 trading locations in Kent. Most of that activity sits in machinery and mechanical appliances, electrical machinery and electronics, optical, photographic and medical instruments. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to ease back by around 5.1% over the next three months.

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546Import declarations▼ 2.7% on the 6 months before

222Export declarations

−5.1%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data

99Trading 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 99 businesses.

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★ Most active in ChathamFiled more customs declarations than any other Chatham business over the last six months — roughly 12% of the town's total import activity, mostly in cosmetics, perfumes and essential oils.

Most active business

DSD TRADE LTD

68 import declarations 21 export declarations ME5 *Ch. 33Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 59 Active in 5 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include sets of two or more tools of heading 8202 to 8205, put up in sets for retail sale, gloves, mittens and mitts, impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with plastics or rubber, knitted or crocheted, interchangeable spanner sockets, with or without handles, of base metal.

▲ Expected to increase by 21.9% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity68 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity21 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

SPEEDEX CARRIERS LIMITED

0 import declarations 28 export declarations ME5 *Ch. 10Ch. 15Ch. 20Ch. 22 Active in 4 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include semi-milled or wholly milled rice, whether or not polished or glazed, fixed vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified (excl. soya-bean, groundnut, olive, palm, sunflower-seed, safflower, cotton-seed, coconut, palm kernel, babassu, rape, colza and mustard, linseed,, upholstered seats, with wooden frames (excl. convertible into beds).

▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% 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 activity28 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

ICOMERA UK LTD

17 import declarations 10 export declarations ME4 *Ch. 39Ch. 42Ch. 73Ch. 84 Active in 5 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include articles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire), threaded articles, of iron or steel, n.e.s., machines and mechanical appliances, n.e.s..

▼ Expected to slow by 36.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity17 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity10 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

MS MOTORSPORT LIMITED

26 import declarations 1 export declarations ME4 *Ch. 68Ch. 84Ch. 87Ch. 95 Active in 5 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include bumpers and parts thereof 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 moto, parts and accessories of bodies 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 purpos, 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 155.6% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity26 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity1 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

ENDURA GROUP LIMITED

24 import declarations 2 export declarations ME5 *Ch. 27Ch. 39Ch. 42Ch. 56 Active in 5 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include scythes, sickles, hay knives, timber wedges and other hand tools of a kind used in agriculture, horticulture or forestry, with working parts of base metal (excl. spades, shovels, mattocks, picks, hoes, rakes, axes, billhooks and similar hewing tools,, hedge shears, two-handed pruning shears and similar two-handed shears, with working parts of base metal, handsaws, with working parts of base metal (excl. power-operated saws).

▼ Expected to slow by 11.1% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity24 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity2 in the last 6 months

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What Chatham trades

The most frequently declared goods across all 99 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.

Tables for casino games, automatic bowling alley equipment, and other funfair, table or parlour games, incl. pintables (excl. operated by any means of payment, billiards, video game consoles and machines, and playing cards)Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these productsAppliances 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)Meat or offal of fowls of the species "Gallus domesticus", prepared or preserved (excl. sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight of <=Parts and accessories for carriages for disabled persons, n.e.s.Tube or pipe fittings, of iron or steel (excl. cast iron or stainless steel products; flanges; threaded elbows, bends and sleeves; butt welding fittings)Recovered "waste and scrap" paper or paperboard made mainly of bleached chemical pulp, not coloured in the massParts of lifts, skip hoists or escalators, n.e.s.

Common questions about trade in Chatham

How many businesses import or export from Chatham?

HMRC customs records show 99 businesses in Chatham (ME4, ME5) filed declarations over the last six months — 546 import declarations and 222 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.

What do Chatham businesses import most?

The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Chatham traders the leading goods are tables for casino games, automatic bowling alley equipment, and other funfair, table or parlour games, incl. pintables (excl. operated by any means of payment, billiards, video game consoles and machines, and playing cards), sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products, 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), meat or offal of fowls of the species "gallus domesticus", prepared or preserved (excl. sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight of <=. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.

Is trade from Chatham growing?

Import activity is down 2.7% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 5.1%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.

How do I get contact details for Chatham importers?

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Top 10 businesses by 6-month activity Free tier

DSD TRADE LTD

SPEEDEX CARRIERS LIMITED

ICOMERA UK LTD

MS MOTORSPORT LIMITED

ENDURA GROUP LIMITED

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What Chatham trades

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