HMRC records show 52 businesses trading internationally from Swale over the last six months. It ranks 24 of 48 trading locations in Kent. Most of that activity sits in machinery and mechanical appliances, electrical machinery and electronics, iron and steel articles. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to pick up by around 4.9% 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
681Import declarations▼ 2.9% on the 6 months before
245Export declarations
+4.9%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
52Trading 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 52 businesses.
★ Most active in SwaleFiled more customs declarations than any other Swale business over the last six months — roughly 28% of the town's total import activity, mostly in sugar and confectionery.
Most active business
KNAUF UK GMBH
189 import declarations53 export declarationsME9 *Ch. 17Ch. 25Ch. 32Ch. 34Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include structures and parts of structures, of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. bridges and bridge-sections, towers and lattice masts, doors and windows and their frames, thresholds for doors, props and similar equipment for scaffolding, shuttering, propping or, glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings, plasters consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate, whether or not coloured, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retarders.
▲ Expected to increase by 14.4% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity189 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity53 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
NORTON FOLGATE MARKETING LTD
50 import declarationsImports onlyME9 *Ch. 07Ch. 08Ch. 39Ch. 84Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include fresh or dried oranges, fresh cherries (excl. sour cherries), fresh or dried mandarins incl. tangerines and satsumas (excl. clementines).
▼ Expected to slow by 6.2% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity50 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING SERVICES LIMITED
33 import declarations12 export declarationsME9 *Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 48Ch. 49Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include articles of plastics and articles of other materials of heading 3901 to 3914, n.e.s (excl. goods of 9619), parts of pumps for liquids, n.e.s., parts of centrifuges, incl. centrifugal dryers, 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 activity33 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity12 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
WATERCO (EUROPE) LTD
41 import declarations48 export declarationsME9 *Ch. 32Ch. 38Ch. 39Ch. 70Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include 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), parts of machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying liquids or gases, n.e.s., cullet and other waste and scrap of glass; glass in the mass (excl. glass in the form of powder, granules or flakes, and activated glass of heading 8549).
▲ Expected to increase by 24.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity41 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity48 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
GW PHARMACEUTICALS LIMITED
51 import declarations32 export declarationsME9 *Ch. 15Ch. 21Ch. 28Ch. 29Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include medicaments consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic purposes, put up in measured doses "incl. those for transdermal administration" or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. containing antibiotics, hormones or ste, carboys, bottles, flasks, jars, pots, phials and other containers, of glass, of a kind used for the commercial conveyance or packing of goods, and preserving jars, of glass (excl. ampoules, glass inners for containers, with vacuum insulation, perfume, heterocyclic compounds with oxygen hetero-atom[s] only (excl. compounds containing unfused furan ring, whether or not hydrogenated, in the structure, and lactones, isosafrole, 1-[1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl]propan-2-one, piperonal, safrole, tetrahydrocannab.
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity51 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity32 in the last 6 months
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Every importer and exporter in ME9 with monthly activity, 24-month indicators, forecasts, Companies House records, AI research and validated contact reveals.
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What Swale trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 52 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Structures and parts of structures, of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. bridges and bridge-sections, towers and lattice masts, doors and windows and their frames, thresholds for doors, props and similar equipment for scaffolding, shuttering, propping orArticles of plastics and articles of other materials of heading 3901 to 3914, n.e.s (excl. goods of 9619)Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillingsFresh or dried orangesPlasters consisting of calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate, whether or not coloured, with or without small quantities of accelerators or retardersPrefabricated structural components for building or civil engineering of cement, concrete or artificial stone, whether or not reinforcedBoards, sheets, panels, tiles and similar articles, of plaster or compositions based on plaster, faced or reinforced with paper or paperboard only (excl. ornamented and with plaster agglomerated articles for heat-insulation, sound-insulation or soundPreparations of a kind used in animal feeding (excl. dog or cat food put up for retail sale)
Common questions about trade in Swale
How many businesses import or export from Swale?
HMRC customs records show 52 businesses in Swale (ME9) filed declarations over the last six months — 681 import declarations and 245 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Swale businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Swale traders the leading goods are structures and parts of structures, of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. bridges and bridge-sections, towers and lattice masts, doors and windows and their frames, thresholds for doors, props and similar equipment for scaffolding, shuttering, propping or, articles of plastics and articles of other materials of heading 3901 to 3914, n.e.s (excl. goods of 9619), glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings, fresh or dried oranges. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Swale growing?
Import activity is down 2.9% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to rise by roughly 4.9%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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