HMRC records show 164 businesses trading internationally from Bicester over the last six months. It ranks 6 of 22 trading locations in Oxfordshire. 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 8.1% 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
2,478Import declarations▼ 17.9% on the 6 months before
1,371Export declarations
−8.1%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
164Trading 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 164 businesses.
★ Most active in BicesterFiled more customs declarations than any other Bicester business over the last six months — roughly 24% of the town's total import activity, mostly in beverages, spirits and vinegar.
Most active business
E P BARRUS LTD
601 import declarations67 export declarationsOX26 *Ch. 22Ch. 25Ch. 27Ch. 32Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine "diesel or semi-diesel engine" (excl. engines for marine propulsion and engines for vehicles of chapter 87), compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine "diesel or semi-diesel engine", for marine propulsion, spark-ignition outboard motors for marine propulsion.
▼ Expected to slow by 6.5% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity601 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity67 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
THE MENU PARTNERS LIMITED
162 import declarations4 export declarationsOX26 *Ch. 02Ch. 04Ch. 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, prepared or preserved meat and offal of swine, incl. mixtures (excl. hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purpose, in containers of a ne, meat or offal of fowls of the species "gallus domesticus", prepared or preserved (excl. sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes, in containers of a net weight of <=.
▼ Expected to slow by 7.2% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity162 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity4 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
THE OXFORD HEALTH COMPANY LTD
114 import declarations9 export declarationsOX26 *Ch. 04Ch. 07Ch. 11Ch. 12Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include food preparations, n.e.s., vegetable saps and extracts (excl. liquorice, hops, opium and ephedra), toxins, cultures of micro-organisms and similar products, e.g. plasmodia (excl. yeasts and vaccines).
▲ Expected to increase by 9.4% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity114 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity9 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
LECHENO LTD
0 import declarations118 export declarationsOX26 *Ch. 42Ch. 58Ch. 61Ch. 62Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include articles of apparel, of leather or composition leather (excl. clothing accessories, footware and headgear and parts thereof, and goods of chapter 95, e.g. shin guards, fencing masks), jerseys, pullovers, cardigans, waistcoats and similar articles, of hair of kashmir "cashmere" goats, knitted or crocheted (excl. quilted articles), jerseys, pullovers, cardigans, waistcoats and similar articles, of textile materials, knitted or crocheted (excl. of wool, fine animal hair, cotton or man-made fibres, and wadded waistcoats).
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity0 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity118 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
BRITA WATER FILTER SYSTEMS LTD
87 import declarations14 export declarationsOX26 *Ch. 21Ch. 38Ch. 39Ch. 48Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include folding cartons, boxes and cases, of non-corrugated paper or paperboard, machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying water, parts of machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying liquids or gases, n.e.s..
▼ Expected to slow by 11.4% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity87 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity14 in the last 6 months
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What Bicester trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 164 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Handbags, whether or not with shoulder straps, incl. those without handles, with outer surface of leather, composition leather or patent leatherTricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kindsFood preparations, n.e.s.Travelling-bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, shopping-bags, map-cases, tool bags, sports bags, jewellery boxes, cutlery cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar contaCompression-ignition internal combustion piston engine "diesel or semi-diesel engine" (excl. engines for marine propulsion and engines for vehicles of chapter 87)T-shirts, singlets and other vests of cotton, knitted or crochetedSugar confectionery not containing cocoa, incl. white chocolate (excl. chewing gum)Machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying water
Common questions about trade in Bicester
How many businesses import or export from Bicester?
HMRC customs records show 164 businesses in Bicester (OX26) filed declarations over the last six months — 2,478 import declarations and 1,371 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Bicester businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Bicester traders the leading goods are handbags, whether or not with shoulder straps, incl. those without handles, with outer surface of leather, composition leather or patent leather, 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, food preparations, n.e.s., travelling-bags, insulated food or beverage bags, toilet bags, rucksacks, shopping-bags, map-cases, tool bags, sports bags, jewellery boxes, cutlery cases, binocular cases, camera cases, musical instrument cases, gun cases, holsters and similar conta. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Bicester growing?
Import activity is down 17.9% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 8.1%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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