Over the last six months, 15 Hawkinge businesses filed customs declarations. It ranks 37 of 48 trading locations in Kent. Most of that activity sits in machinery and mechanical appliances, iron and steel articles, optical, photographic and medical instruments. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to ease back by around 36.2% 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
199Import declarations▲ 46.3% on the 6 months before
157Export declarations
−36.2%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
15Trading 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 15 businesses.
★ Most active in HawkingeFiled more customs declarations than any other Hawkinge business over the last six months — roughly 75% of the town's total import activity, mostly in cocoa and chocolate.
Most active business
THE CHANNEL TUNNEL GROUP LTD
150 import declarations139 export declarationsCT18 *Ch. 18Ch. 19Ch. 26Ch. 27Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include axles, for electrical purposes, and wheels and parts thereof for railway or tramway locomotives or rolling stock; parts of bogies and bissel-bogies, n.e.s., railway or tramway track fixtures and fittings (excl. sleepers of wood, concrete or steel, sections of track and other track fixtures not yet assembled and railway or tramway track construction material); mechanical, incl. electromechanical, signalli, 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.
▲ Expected to increase by 155.6% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity150 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity139 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
AGROEUROPA SPA
3 import declarationsImports onlyCT18 *Ch. 02Active in 3 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include frozen cuts and edible offal of fowls of the species gallus domesticus, frozen cuts and edible offal of turkeys of the species domesticus, frozen meat of swine (excl. carcases and half-carcases, and hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in).
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% 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 activity0 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
SPACE COWBOY VINTAGE LTD
2 import declarationsImports onlyCT18 *Ch. 63Active in 2 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include worn clothing and clothing accessories, blankets and travelling rugs, household linen and articles for interior furnishing, of all types of textile materials, incl. all types of footwear and headgear, showing signs of appreciable wear and presented i.
▼ Expected to slow by 100.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity2 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
D TAYLOR CLASSIC PORSCHE
2 import declarationsImports onlyCT18 *Ch. 87Ch. 97Active in 1 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include collections and collectors' pieces of archaeological, ethnographic or historical interest, motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of <10 persons, incl. station wagons and racing cars, with only spark-ignition internal combustion reciprocating piston engine of a cylinder capacity > 1.500 cm but <= 3.000, 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.
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity2 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
FUDGE KITCHEN LTD
1 import declarationsImports onlyCT18 *Ch. 17Ch. 21Ch. 33Ch. 48Active in 1 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include sugar confectionery not containing cocoa, incl. white chocolate (excl. chewing gum), mixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures, incl. alcoholic solutions, with a basis of one or more of these substances, of a kind used in the food and drink industries; other preparations based on odoriferous substances, of a kind used for the m, food preparations, n.e.s..
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity1 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
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What Hawkinge trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 15 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Keyboard instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (excl. accordions)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 contaAccordions and musical instruments without keyboards, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electricallyCandles, tapers and the likeArticles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire)Collections and collectors' pieces of archaeological, ethnographic or historical interestFrozen cuts and edible offal of fowls of the species Gallus domesticusGuitars, harps and other string musical instruments (excl. with keyboard and those played with a bow)
Common questions about trade in Hawkinge
How many businesses import or export from Hawkinge?
HMRC customs records show 15 businesses in Hawkinge (CT18) filed declarations over the last six months — 199 import declarations and 157 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Hawkinge businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Hawkinge traders the leading goods are keyboard instruments, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically (excl. accordions), 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, accordions and musical instruments without keyboards, the sound of which is produced, or must be amplified, electrically, candles, tapers and the like. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Hawkinge growing?
Import activity is up 46.3% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 36.2%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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