HMRC records show 68 businesses trading internationally from Sleaford over the last six months. It ranks 8 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 3.9% 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
947Import declarations▼ 13.8% on the 6 months before
382Export declarations
−3.9%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
68Trading 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 68 businesses.
★ Most active in SleafordFiled more customs declarations than any other Sleaford business over the last six months — roughly 18% of the town's total import activity, mostly in vegetables.
Most active business
SLEAFORD QUALITY FOODS LIMITED
174 import declarations52 export declarationsNG34 *Ch. 07Ch. 08Ch. 09Ch. 11Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include dried vegetables and mixtures of vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared (excl. onions, mushrooms and truffles, not mixed), spices (excl. pepper of the genus piper, fruit of the genus capsicum or of the genus pimenta, vanilla, cinnamon, cinnamontree flowers, clove "wholefruit", clove stems, nutmeg, mace, cardamoms, seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin and cara, flakes, granules and pellets of potatoes.
▼ Expected to slow by 18.1% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity174 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity52 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
J L PRIESTLEY & CO LTD
55 import declarations6 export declarationsNG34 *Ch. 07Ch. 08Ch. 09Ch. 11Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include dried vegetables and mixtures of vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared (excl. onions, mushrooms and truffles, not mixed), dried onions, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared, dried apples.
▲ Expected to increase by 7.5% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity55 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity6 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
ELECTRONIC METERING EQUIPMENT & CONTROL LIMITED
28 import declarations15 export declarationsNG34 *Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 84Ch. 85Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include reciprocating positive displacement pumps for liquids, 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), parts of pumps for liquids, n.e.s., mixing, kneading, crushing, grinding, screening, sifting, homogenising, emulsifying or stirring machines, n.e.s. (excl. industrial robots).
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity28 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity15 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
GLOW INFLATABLES LIMITED
12 import declarations23 export declarationsNG34 *Ch. 39Ch. 63Ch. 84Ch. 85Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include inflatable balls, tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds, original sculptures and statuary, in any material (excl. over 100 years old).
▲ Expected to increase by 71.4% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity12 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity23 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
S L ENGINEERING LTD
15 import declarations10 export declarationsNG34 *Ch. 40Ch. 68Ch. 73Ch. 75Active in 5 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), parts and accessories for machine tools for working metal without removing material, n.e.s., tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of circular cross-section, of stainless steel, cold-drawn or cold-rolled "cold-reduced" (excl. line pipe of a kind used for oil or gas pipelines, casing and tubing of a kind used for drilling for oil or gas.
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity15 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity10 in the last 6 months
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What Sleaford trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 68 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Dried vegetables and mixtures of vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared (excl. onions, mushrooms and truffles, not mixed)Spices (excl. pepper of the genus Piper, fruit of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, vanilla, cinnamon, cinnamontree flowers, clove "wholefruit", clove stems, nutmeg, mace, cardamoms, seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin and caraArticles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire)Dried onions, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further preparedParts of machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying liquids or gases, n.e.s.Fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, crushed or groundReciprocating positive displacement pumps for liquids, 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)Parts of pumps for liquids, n.e.s.
Common questions about trade in Sleaford
How many businesses import or export from Sleaford?
HMRC customs records show 68 businesses in Sleaford (NG34) filed declarations over the last six months — 947 import declarations and 382 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Sleaford businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Sleaford traders the leading goods are dried vegetables and mixtures of vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared (excl. onions, mushrooms and truffles, not mixed), spices (excl. pepper of the genus piper, fruit of the genus capsicum or of the genus pimenta, vanilla, cinnamon, cinnamontree flowers, clove "wholefruit", clove stems, nutmeg, mace, cardamoms, seeds of anise, badian, fennel, coriander, cumin and cara, articles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire), dried onions, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Sleaford growing?
Import activity is down 13.8% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 3.9%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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