Over the last six months, 70 Barry (Vale of Glamorgan) businesses filed customs declarations. That puts it second in South Glamorgan for trade activity. 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 1.2% 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
712Import declarations▼ 24.3% on the 6 months before
680Export declarations
−1.2%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
70Trading 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 70 businesses.
★ Most active in Barry (Vale of Glamorgan)Filed more customs declarations than any other Barry (Vale of Glamorgan) business over the last six months — roughly 4% of the town's total import activity, mostly in miscellaneous food preparations.
Most active business
E-CUBE SOLUTIONS LIMITED
31 import declarations400 export declarationsCF62 *Ch. 21Ch. 27Ch. 35Ch. 39Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include seats for aircraft, parts of aeroplanes, helicopters or unmanned aircraft, n.e.s. (excl. those for gliders), trade advertising material, commercial catalogues and the like.
▲ Expected to increase by 7.3% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity31 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity400 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
LORAX LTD
57 import declarations5 export declarationsCF63 *Ch. 33Ch. 34Ch. 36Ch. 39Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include 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, knives with fixed blades of base metal (excl. straw knives, machetes, knives and cutting blades for machines or mechanical appliances, table knives, fish knives, butter knives, razors and razor blades and knives of heading 8214), knives having other than fixed blades, incl. pruning knives, of base metal (excl. razors).
▼ Expected to slow by 16.7% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity57 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity5 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
ZERO ALPHA SOLUTIONS LIMITED
35 import declarations10 export declarationsCF62 *Ch. 28Ch. 29Ch. 39Ch. 40Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include units for automatic data-processing machines (excl. processing units, input or output units and storage units), air heaters and hot-air distributors, incl. distributors which can also distribute fresh or conditioned air, non-electrically heated, incorporating a motor-driven fan or blower, and parts thereof, of iron or steel, parts and accessories of automatic data-processing machines or for other machines of heading 8471, n.e.s..
▲ Expected to increase by 63.6% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity35 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity10 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
LION LABORATORIES LTD
21 import declarations17 export declarationsCF63 *Ch. 28Ch. 29Ch. 38Ch. 39Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include platinum, unwrought or in powder form, machines which only perform one of the functions of printing, copying or facsimile transmission, capable of connecting to an automatic data processing machine or to a network, nitrogen.
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity21 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity17 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
SIERRA NEVADA CORPORATION MISSION SYSTEM S UK LTD
30 import declarations6 export declarationsCF62 *Ch. 39Ch. 76Ch. 82Ch. 84Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine "diesel or semi-diesel engine", for marine propulsion, vessels, incl. lifeboats (excl. warships, rowing boats and other vessels of heading 8901 to 8905 and vessels for breaking up), industrial robots, n.e.s..
▲ Expected to increase by 37.5% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity30 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity6 in the last 6 months
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What Barry (Vale of Glamorgan) trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 70 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
Prefabricated structural components for building or civil engineering of cement, concrete or artificial stone, whether or not reinforcedParts of aeroplanes, helicopters or unmanned aircraft, n.e.s. (excl. those for gliders)Separate chemically defined organo-inorganic compounds (excl. organo-sulphur, mercury, tetramethyl lead, tetraethyl lead and tributyltin compounds, and organo-phosphorous derivatives)Chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries, incl. those consisting of mixtures of natural products, n.e.s.Products suitable for use as glues or adhesives put up for retail sale as glues or adhesives, with a net weight of <= 1 kgArticles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire)Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kindsAppliances 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)
Common questions about trade in Barry (Vale of Glamorgan)
How many businesses import or export from Barry (Vale of Glamorgan)?
HMRC customs records show 70 businesses in Barry (Vale of Glamorgan) (CF62, CF63) filed declarations over the last six months — 712 import declarations and 680 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Barry (Vale of Glamorgan) businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Barry (Vale of Glamorgan) traders the leading goods are prefabricated structural components for building or civil engineering of cement, concrete or artificial stone, whether or not reinforced, parts of aeroplanes, helicopters or unmanned aircraft, n.e.s. (excl. those for gliders), separate chemically defined organo-inorganic compounds (excl. organo-sulphur, mercury, tetramethyl lead, tetraethyl lead and tributyltin compounds, and organo-phosphorous derivatives), chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries, incl. those consisting of mixtures of natural products, n.e.s.. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Barry (Vale of Glamorgan) growing?
Import activity is down 24.3% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 1.2%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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