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Maidstone importers & exporters

Q: How many businesses import or export from Maidstone?

HMRC customs records show 328 businesses in Maidstone (ME14, ME15, ME16, ME17) filed declarations over the last six months — 2,239 import declarations and 975 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.

Q: What do Maidstone businesses import most?

The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Maidstone traders the leading goods are 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, fresh cranberries, bilberries and other fruits of the genus vaccinium, fresh raspberries, blackberries, mulberries and loganberries, fresh strawberries. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.

Q: Is trade from Maidstone growing?

Import activity is down 10.5% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 8.6%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.

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

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328 businesses in Maidstone appear in HMRC customs records for the last six months. That puts it third in Kent for trade activity. 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 8.6% over the next three months.

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2,239Import declarations▼ 10.5% on the 6 months before

975Export declarations

−8.6%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data

328Trading 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 328 businesses.

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★ Most active in MaidstoneFiled more customs declarations than any other Maidstone business over the last six months — roughly 5% of the town's total import activity, mostly in animal and vegetable fats and oils.

Most active business

KEMET INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

105 import declarations 119 export declarations ME15 *Ch. 15Ch. 27Ch. 28Ch. 29 Active in 5 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include textile products and articles, for technical purposes, specified in note 7 to chapter 59, n.e.s., surface-active preparations, washing preparations, incl. auxiliary washing preparations and cleaning preparations (excl. those put up for retail sale, organic surface-active agents, soap and organic surface-active preparations in the form of bars, ca, medium oils and preparations, of petroleum or bituminous minerals, not containing biodiesel, 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 activity105 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity119 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

J PERKINS (DISTRIBUTION) LTD

60 import declarations 7 export declarations ME17 *Ch. 27Ch. 32Ch. 35Ch. 39 Active in 5 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include 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, hand-operated drilling, threading or tapping hand tools, textile fabrics impregnated, coated, covered or laminated with polyurethane (excl. wallcoverings of textile materials impregnated or covered with polyurethane; floor coverings consisting of a textile backing and a top layer or covering of polyurethan.

▼ Expected to slow by 5.4% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity60 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity7 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

BERRY GARDENS LIMITED

47 import declarations 12 export declarations ME17 *Ch. 06Ch. 08Ch. 39Ch. 40 Active in 5 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include fresh raspberries, blackberries, mulberries and loganberries, fresh cranberries, bilberries and other fruits of the genus vaccinium, fresh strawberries.

▲ Expected to increase by 13.3% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity47 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity12 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

AUDIKA HEARING CARE LTD

39 import declarations 20 export declarations ME14 *Ch. 21Ch. 30Ch. 34Ch. 39 Active in 5 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include data-processing machines, automatic, portable, weighing <= 10 kg, consisting of at least a central processing unit, a keyboard and a display (excl. peripheral units), trade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the like, data-processing machines, automatic, comprising in the same housing at least a central processing unit, and one input unit and one output unit, whether or not combined (excl. portable weighing <= 10 kg and excl. those presented in the form of systems.

▼ Expected to slow by 39.4% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity39 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity20 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

SEPTODONT LIMITED

59 import declarations Imports only ME16 *Ch. 28Ch. 30Ch. 33Ch. 38 Active 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, medicaments containing hormones or steroids used as hormones but not antibiotics, put up in measured doses "incl. those for transdermal administration" or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. medicaments containing insulin or corticosteroid ho, medicaments containing alkaloids or derivatives thereof, not containing hormones, steroids used as hormones or antibiotics, put up in measured doses "incl. those for transdermal administration" or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. containin.

▼ Expected to slow by 6.5% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity59 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months

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318 more Maidstone businesses

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What Maidstone trades

The most frequently declared goods across all 328 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.

Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kindsFresh cranberries, bilberries and other fruits of the genus VacciniumFresh raspberries, blackberries, mulberries and loganberriesFresh strawberriesFood preparations, n.e.s.Surface-active preparations, washing preparations, incl. auxiliary washing preparations and cleaning preparations (excl. those put up for retail sale, organic surface-active agents, soap and organic surface-active preparations in the form of bars, caTables 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)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)

Common questions about trade in Maidstone

How many businesses import or export from Maidstone?

HMRC customs records show 328 businesses in Maidstone (ME14, ME15, ME16, ME17) filed declarations over the last six months — 2,239 import declarations and 975 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.

What do Maidstone businesses import most?

The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Maidstone traders the leading goods are 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, fresh cranberries, bilberries and other fruits of the genus vaccinium, fresh raspberries, blackberries, mulberries and loganberries, fresh strawberries. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.

Is trade from Maidstone growing?

Import activity is down 10.5% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 8.6%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.

How do I get contact details for Maidstone importers?

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Maidstone importers & exporters

Top 10 businesses by 6-month activity Free tier

KEMET INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

J PERKINS (DISTRIBUTION) LTD

BERRY GARDENS LIMITED

AUDIKA HEARING CARE LTD

SEPTODONT LIMITED

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What Maidstone trades

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