HMRC records show 104 businesses trading internationally from Ripon over the last six months. It ranks 6 of 26 trading locations in North Yorkshire. 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 10.9% 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
1,188Import declarations▼ 12.5% on the 6 months before
370Export declarations
−10.9%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
104Trading 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 104 businesses.
★ Most active in RiponFiled more customs declarations than any other Ripon business over the last six months — roughly 23% of the town's total import activity, mostly in inorganic chemicals.
Most active business
WOLSELEY UK LIMITED
271 import declarations30 export declarationsHG4 *Ch. 28Ch. 29Ch. 32Ch. 34Active in 5 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), compressors for refrigerating equipment, ceramic sinks, washbasins, washbasin pedestals, baths, bidets, water closet pans, flushing cisterns, urinals and similar sanitary fixtures of porcelain or china (excl. soap dishes, sponge holders, tooth-brush holders, towel hooks and toilet paper hol.
▼ Expected to slow by 6.1% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity271 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity30 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
DALTON ENGINEERING LTD
60 import declarationsImports onlyHG4 *Ch. 12Ch. 32Ch. 39Ch. 48Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include parts of poultry-keeping machinery or poultry incubators and brooders, n.e.s., fans (excl. table, floor, wall, window, ceiling or roof fans, with a self-contained electric motor of an output <= 125 w), poultry-keeping machinery (excl. machines for sorting or grading eggs, poultry pickers of heading 8438 and incubators and brooders).
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity60 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
NETWORK MEDICAL PRODUCTS LIMITED
24 import declarations35 export declarationsHG4 *Ch. 30Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 42Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include wadding, gauze, bandages and the like, e.g. dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices, impregnated or covered with pharmaceutical substances or put up for retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary purposes (excl. adhesive dressings and ot, nonwovens, whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or laminated, n.e.s., of man-made filaments, weighing > 70 g/m but <= 150 g/m, vacuum flasks and other vacuum vessels, and parts thereof (excl. glass inners).
▲ Expected to increase by 50.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity24 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity35 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
ORFFA UK LTD
53 import declarationsImports onlyHG4 *Ch. 12Ch. 21Ch. 23Ch. 25Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (excl. dog or cat food put up for retail sale), inactive yeasts; other dead single-cell micro-organisms (excl. packaged as medicaments), toxins, cultures of micro-organisms and similar products, e.g. plasmodia (excl. yeasts and vaccines).
▼ Expected to slow by 9.4% 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 activity0 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
LIFE SOURCE SUPPLEMENTS LTD
48 import declarations2 export declarationsHG4 *Ch. 04Ch. 07Ch. 09Ch. 11Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include vegetable saps and extracts (excl. liquorice, hops, opium and ephedra), food preparations, n.e.s., plants, parts of plants, incl. seeds and fruits, used primarily in perfumery, in pharmacy or for insecticidal, fungicidal or similar purposes, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not cut, crushed or powdered (excl. ginseng roots, coca leaf, p.
▼ Expected to slow by 8.6% 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 activity2 in the last 6 months
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What Ripon trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 104 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Fixed vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified (excl. soya-bean, groundnut, olive, palm, sunflower-seed, safflower, cotton-seed, coconut, palm kernel, babassu, rape, colza and mustard, linseed,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)Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (excl. dog or cat food put up for retail sale)Essential oils, whether or not terpeneless, incl. concretes and absolutes (excl. those of citrus fruit and mint)Wine of fresh grapes, incl. fortified wines, and grape must whose fermentation has been arrested by the addition of alcohol, in containers of <= 2 l (excl. sparkling wine)Extracted oleoresins; concentrates of essential oils in fats, fixed oils, waxes and the like, obtained by enfleurage or maceration; terpenic by-products of the deterpenation of essential oils; aromatic aqueous distillates and aqueous solutions of essSewing thread of synthetic filaments, whether or not put up for retail saleBread, 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
Common questions about trade in Ripon
How many businesses import or export from Ripon?
HMRC customs records show 104 businesses in Ripon (HG4) filed declarations over the last six months — 1,188 import declarations and 370 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Ripon businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Ripon traders the leading goods are fixed vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified (excl. soya-bean, groundnut, olive, palm, sunflower-seed, safflower, cotton-seed, coconut, palm kernel, babassu, rape, colza and mustard, linseed,, 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), preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (excl. dog or cat food put up for retail sale), essential oils, whether or not terpeneless, incl. concretes and absolutes (excl. those of citrus fruit and mint). You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Ripon growing?
Import activity is down 12.5% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 10.9%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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