Over the last six months, 122 Boston businesses filed customs declarations. It ranks 5 of 31 trading locations in Lincolnshire. 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 5.7% 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
1,596Import declarations▼ 10.6% on the 6 months before
354Export declarations
−5.7%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
122Trading 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 122 businesses.
★ Most active in BostonFiled more customs declarations than any other Boston business over the last six months — roughly 18% of the town's total import activity, mostly in salt, stone, plaster and cement.
Most active business
GRIMME (UK) LIMITED
295 import declarations28 export declarationsPE20 *Ch. 25Ch. 28Ch. 35Ch. 39Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include articles of vulcanised rubber (excl. hard rubber), n.e.s., gears and gearing for machinery (excl. toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements presented separately); ball or roller screws; gear boxes and other speed changers, incl. torque converters, transmission shafts, incl. cam shafts and crank shafts, and cranks.
▼ Expected to slow by 7.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity295 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity28 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
JDM FOOD GROUP LIMITED
48 import declarations50 export declarationsPE20 *Ch. 04Ch. 07Ch. 09Ch. 15Active 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), ginger, neither crushed nor ground, garlic, fresh or chilled.
▲ Expected to increase by 3.2% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity48 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity50 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
METSA WOOD UK LTD
53 import declarations24 export declarationsPE21 *Ch. 38Ch. 39Ch. 44Ch. 48Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include fir "abies spp." and spruce "picea spp." sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness of > 6 mm (excl. of s-p-f spruce&pine&fir), pine "pinus spp." sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness of > 6 mm (excl. of s-p-f spruce&pine&fir), medium density fibreboard "mdf" of wood, of a thickness > 9 mm.
▼ Expected to slow by 24.4% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity53 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity24 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
ECO FREEZE LTD
70 import declarationsImports onlyPE21 *Ch. 02Ch. 03Ch. 07Ch. 08Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the, pasta, stuffed with meat or other substances, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared, mixtures of vegetables, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen.
▼ Expected to slow by 11.4% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity70 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
DYNAMIC CASSETTE INTERNATIONAL LTD
42 import declarations16 export declarationsPE21 *Ch. 32Ch. 33Ch. 34Ch. 39Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include parts and accessories of printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, n.e.s. (excl. of printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442), direct synthetic organic dyes; preparations based on direct synthetic organic dyes of a kind used to dye fabrics or produce colorant preparations (excl. preparations of heading 3207, 3208, 3209, 3210, 3213 and 3215), printers, copying machines and facsimile machines, whether or not combined (excl. those capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network and printing machinery used for printing by means of plates, cylinders and other pri.
▼ Expected to slow by 9.1% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity42 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity16 in the last 6 months
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What Boston trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 122 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and theFir "Abies spp." and spruce "Picea spp." sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness of > 6 mm (excl. of S-P-F spruce&pine&fir)Preparations for sauces and prepared sauces; mixed condiments and seasonings (excl. soya sauce, tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces, mustard, and mustard flour and meal)Pasta, stuffed with meat or other substances, whether or not cooked or otherwise preparedPine "Pinus spp." sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness of > 6 mm (excl. of S-P-F spruce&pine&fir)Vegetables, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen (excl. potatoes, leguminous vegetables, spinach, New Zealand spinach, orache spinach, and sweetcorn)Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these productsSugar confectionery not containing cocoa, incl. white chocolate (excl. chewing gum)
Common questions about trade in Boston
How many businesses import or export from Boston?
HMRC customs records show 122 businesses in Boston (PE20, PE21) filed declarations over the last six months — 1,596 import declarations and 354 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Boston businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Boston traders the leading goods are bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the, fir "abies spp." and spruce "picea spp." sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness of > 6 mm (excl. of s-p-f spruce&pine&fir), preparations for sauces and prepared sauces; mixed condiments and seasonings (excl. soya sauce, tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces, mustard, and mustard flour and meal), pasta, stuffed with meat or other substances, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Boston growing?
Import activity is down 10.6% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 5.7%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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