194 businesses in Royal Tunbridge Wells appear in HMRC customs records for the last six months. It ranks 8 of 48 trading locations in Kent. Most of that activity sits in electrical machinery and electronics, machinery and mechanical appliances, plastics and plastic articles. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to ease back by around 13.5% 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
1,816Import declarations▼ 28.4% on the 6 months before
847Export declarations
−13.5%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
194Trading 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 194 businesses.
★ Most active in Royal Tunbridge WellsFiled more customs declarations than any other Royal Tunbridge Wells business over the last six months — roughly 5% of the town's total import activity, mostly in miscellaneous chemical products.
Most active business
SENSIA UK LTD.
84 import declarations121 export declarationsTN2 *Ch. 38Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 42Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include machines and mechanical appliances, n.e.s., processing units for automatic data-processing machines, whether or not containing in the same housing one or two of the following types of unit: storage units, input units, output units (excl. those of heading 8471.41 or 8471.49 and excl. peripheral, 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).
▼ Expected to slow by 12.3% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity84 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity121 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
RESPIREX INTERNATIONAL LTD
44 import declarations75 export declarationsTN4 *Ch. 24Ch. 34Ch. 35Ch. 39Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include parts of footwear; removable in-soles, heel cushions and similar articles; gaiters, leggings and similar articles, and parts thereof (excl. outer soles and heels of rubber or plastics, uppers and parts thereof other than stiffeners, and general parts, rubberised textile fabrics (excl. knitted or crocheted textile fabrics, adhesive tape of a width of <= 20 cm, and tyre cord fabric of high-tenacity yarn of nylon or other polyamides, polyesters or viscose rayon), machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying gases (excl. isotope separators and intake air filters for internal combustion engines, and catalytic converters and particulate filters for purifying or filtering exhaust gases from internal combust.
▼ Expected to slow by 30.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity44 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity75 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
FOOD TEAM INTERNATIONAL LTD
107 import declarations10 export declarationsTN1 *Ch. 04Ch. 07Ch. 08Ch. 09Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include vegetables, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen (excl. potatoes, leguminous vegetables, spinach, new zealand spinach, orache spinach, and sweetcorn), pasta, cooked or otherwise prepared (excl. stuffed), cereals (excl. maize [corn]) in grain or flake form or other worked grains, pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, n.e.s. (excl. flour, groats and meal, food preparations obtained by swelling or roasting or from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of.
▼ Expected to slow by 5.4% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity107 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity10 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
STORA ENSO UK LIMITED
114 import declarationsImports onlyTN4 *Ch. 44Ch. 48Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include multi-ply paper and paperboard, coated on one or both sides with kaolin or other inorganic substances, in rolls or in square or rectangular sheets, of any size (excl. that for writing, printing or other graphic purposes, kraft paper and paperboard), unbleached kraftliner, uncoated, in rolls of a width > 36 cm, paper and paperboard used for writing, printing or other graphic purposes, not containing fibres obtained by a mechanical or chemi-mechanical process or of which <= 10% by weight of the total fibre content consists of such fibres, coated on one or bo.
▲ Expected to increase by 71.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity114 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
BRITISH HARLEQUIN PLC
23 import declarations47 export declarationsTN2 *Ch. 25Ch. 32Ch. 34Ch. 35Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include flooring panels, assembled, of wood other than bamboo (excl. multilayer panels and panels for mosaic floors), articles and equipment for general physical exercise, gymnastics or athletics, 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.
▼ Expected to slow by 41.7% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity23 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity47 in the last 6 months
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What Royal Tunbridge Wells trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 194 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)Food preparations, n.e.s.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 contaJerseys, pullovers, cardigans, waistcoats and similar articles, of cotton, knitted or crocheted (excl. wadded waistcoats)Footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics or composition leather, with uppers of leather (excl. covering the ankle, incorporating a protective metal toecap, sports footwear, orthopaedic footwear and toy footwear)Jerseys, pullovers, cardigans, waistcoats and similar articles, of wool, knitted or crocheted (excl. wadded waistcoats)Women's or girls' trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts of textile materials (excl. of wool, fine animal hair, cotton or synthetic fibres, knitted or crocheted, panties and swimwear)Men's or boys' trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts, of cotton (excl. knitted or crocheted, underpants and swimwear)
Common questions about trade in Royal Tunbridge Wells
How many businesses import or export from Royal Tunbridge Wells?
HMRC customs records show 194 businesses in Royal Tunbridge Wells (TN1, TN2, TN4) filed declarations over the last six months — 1,816 import declarations and 847 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Royal Tunbridge Wells businesses import most?
The most common category is electrical machinery and electronics. Across all Royal Tunbridge Wells 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), food preparations, n.e.s., 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, jerseys, pullovers, cardigans, waistcoats and similar articles, of cotton, knitted or crocheted (excl. wadded waistcoats). You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Royal Tunbridge Wells growing?
Import activity is down 28.4% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 13.5%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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