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 and plastic articles. 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 25/08/2026 at 11:41HMRC release in view: Jun 26Snapshot: 2026-08-25.1
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 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 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, waxes and cleaning products.
Most active business
GALLERY DIRECT LIMITED
228 import declarations64 export declarationsME10 *Ch. 34Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 44Active 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
SIGMA ENTERPRISES LTD
4 import declarations97 export declarationsME10 *Ch. 28Ch. 32Ch. 34Ch. 38Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow or level of liquids (excl. meters and regulators), instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking pressure of liquids or gases (excl. regulators), instruments, appliances and machines for measuring or checking, not elsewhere specified in chapter 90 (excl. optical).
▼ Expected to slow by 100.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity4 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity97 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
GEA GRENCO LIMITED
156 import declarations14 export declarationsME10 *Ch. 27Ch. 34Ch. 39Ch. 40Active 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 declarations52 export declarationsME10 *Ch. 27Ch. 29Ch. 34Ch. 35Active 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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Among the most active
FLOPLAST LTD
125 import declarations22 export declarationsME10 *Ch. 32Ch. 34Ch. 35Ch. 39Active 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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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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