Town trade profile · ME10

Sittingbourne importers & exporters

HMRC records show 160 businesses trading internationally from Sittingbourne over the last six months. It ranks 6 of 48 trading locations in Kent. Most of that activity sits in machinery and mechanical appliances, electrical machinery and electronics, plastics. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to ease back by around 0.5% over the next three months.

Refreshed every 24 hours · last run 22 Aug 2026, 20:26HMRC release in view: Jun 26Snapshot: 2026-08-22.1

2,266Import declarations▲ 3.2% on the 6 months before

1,075Export declarations

−0.5%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data

160Trading businesses

Top 5 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 160 businesses.

★ Most active in SittingbourneFiled more customs declarations than any other Sittingbourne business over the last six months — roughly 10% of the town's total import activity, mostly in soaps and cleaning products.

Most active business

GALLERY DIRECT LIMITED

228 import declarations 64 export declarations ME10 *Ch. 34Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 44 Active in 6 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include wooden furniture (excl. for offices, kitchens and bedrooms, and seats), upholstered seats, with wooden frames (excl. convertible into beds), wooden furniture for bedrooms (excl. seats).

▲ Expected to increase by 34.3% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity228 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity64 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

FLOPLAST LTD

125 import declarations 22 export declarations ME10 *Ch. 32Ch. 34Ch. 35Ch. 39 Active in 6 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include building elements for the manufacture of floors, walls, partition walls, ceilings, roofs, etc., of plastics; gutters and accessories of plastics; railings, fences and similar barriers, of plastics; large shelves, for assembly and permanent installati, fittings, e.g. joints, elbows, flanges, of plastics, for tubes, pipes and hoses, rigid tubes, pipes and hoses, of polymers of vinyl chloride.

▼ Expected to slow by 6.3% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity125 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity22 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

BENNETT OPIE LIMITED

124 import declarations 19 export declarations ME10 *Ch. 07Ch. 08Ch. 09Ch. 17 Active in 6 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include food preparations, n.e.s., vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid (excl. cucumbers and gherkins), chocolate and other preparations containing cocoa, in containers or immediate packings of <= 2 kg (excl. in blocks, slabs or bars and cocoa powder).

▼ Expected to slow by 13.9% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity124 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity19 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

GEA GRENCO LIMITED

156 import declarations 14 export declarations ME10 *Ch. 27Ch. 34Ch. 39Ch. 40 Active in 6 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying liquids (excl. such machinery and apparatus for water and other beverages, oil or petrol-filters for internal combustion engines and artificial kidneys), centrifugal pumps, power-driven (excl. those of subheading 8413.11 and 8413.19, fuel, lubricating or cooling medium pumps for internal combustion piston engine and concrete pumps), gaskets, washers and other seals, of vulcanised rubber (excl. hard rubber and those of cellular rubber).

▼ Expected to slow by 15.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity156 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity14 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

DOKA UK FORMWORK TECHNOLOGIE S LIMITED

105 import declarations 52 export declarations ME10 *Ch. 27Ch. 29Ch. 34Ch. 35 Active in 6 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), equipment for scaffolding, shuttering, propping or pit-propping (excl. composite sheetpiling products and formwork panels for poured-in-place concrete, which have the characteristics of moulds), structures and parts of structures, of aluminium, n.e.s., and plates, rods, profiles, tubes and the like, prepared for use in structures, of aluminium, n.e.s. (excl. prefabricated buildings of heading 9406, doors and windows and their frames and thre.

▼ Expected to slow by 30.0% 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 activity52 in the last 6 months

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Every importer and exporter in ME10 with monthly activity, 24-month indicators, forecasts, Companies House records, AI research and validated contact reveals.

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What Sittingbourne trades

The most frequently declared goods across all 160 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.

Articles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire)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 vArticles of plastics and articles of other materials of heading 3901 to 3914, n.e.s (excl. goods of 9619)Wooden furniture (excl. for offices, kitchens and bedrooms, and seats)Food preparations, n.e.s.Ozone therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, artificial respiration or other therapeutic respiration apparatus, incl. parts and accessoriesPlates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of plastics, reinforced, laminated, supported or similarly combined with other materials, unworked or merely surface-worked or merely cut into squares or rectangles (excl. of cellular plastic; self-adhesive produInstruments, apparatus and models designed for demonstrational purposes, e.g. in education or exhibitions, unsuitable for other uses (excl. ground flying trainers of heading 8805, collectors' pieces of heading 9705 and antiques of an age > 100 years

Common questions about trade in Sittingbourne

How many businesses import or export from Sittingbourne?

HMRC customs records show 160 businesses in Sittingbourne (ME10) filed declarations over the last six months — 2,266 import declarations and 1,075 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.

What do Sittingbourne businesses import most?

The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Sittingbourne traders the leading goods are articles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire), 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, articles of plastics and articles of other materials of heading 3901 to 3914, n.e.s (excl. goods of 9619), wooden furniture (excl. for offices, kitchens and bedrooms, and seats). You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.

Is trade from Sittingbourne growing?

Import activity is up 3.2% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 0.5%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.

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Sittingbourne importers & exporters

Top 5 businesses by 6-month activity Free tier

GALLERY DIRECT LIMITED

FLOPLAST LTD

BENNETT OPIE LIMITED

GEA GRENCO LIMITED

DOKA UK FORMWORK TECHNOLOGIE S LIMITED

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What Sittingbourne trades

Common questions about trade in Sittingbourne

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