118 businesses in Darton appear in HMRC customs records for the last six months. It ranks 5 of 24 trading locations in South 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 8.3% 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
1,495Import declarations▼ 12.9% on the 6 months before
769Export declarations
−8.3%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
118Trading 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 118 businesses.
★ Most active in DartonFiled more customs declarations than any other Darton business over the last six months — roughly 7% of the town's total import activity, mostly in miscellaneous chemical products.
Most active business
MELETT LTD
106 import declarations106 export declarationsS75 *Ch. 38Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 48Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include bearing housings for machinery, not incorporating ball or roller bearings; plain shaft bearings for machinery, nuts of iron or steel, air pumps, air or other gas compressors and ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters, having a maximum horizontal side > 120 cm (excl. vacuum pumps, hand- or foot-operated air pumps, compressors for refri.
▼ Expected to slow by 10.2% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity106 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity106 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
PREMDOR CROSBY LIMITED
88 import declarations9 export declarationsS75 *Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 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), doors and their frames and thresholds, of wood (excl. of tropical wood), particle board of wood, whether or not agglomerated with resins or other organic binding substances (excl. oriented strand board and waferboard, fibreboard and cellular wood panels).
▼ Expected to slow by 11.7% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity88 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity9 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT
61 import declarations25 export declarationsS75 *Ch. 29Ch. 30Ch. 32Ch. 33Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses, antisera and other blood fractions, immunological products, put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. diagnostic reagents).
▼ Expected to slow by 13.5% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity61 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity25 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
JTEKT AUTOMOTIVE ENGLAND LTD
78 import declarations4 export declarationsS75 *Ch. 27Ch. 32Ch. 34Ch. 39Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include toothed wheels, chain sprockets and other transmission elements presented separately; parts of transmission shafts, ball screws, couplings and other articles of heading 8483, n.e.s., gaskets, washers and other seals, of vulcanised rubber (excl. hard rubber and those of cellular rubber), balls, needles and rollers for bearings (excl. steel balls of heading 7326).
▼ Expected to slow by 11.9% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity78 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity4 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
JTEKT SALES EUROPE BV
46 import declarations28 export declarationsS75 *Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 84Ch. 87Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include ball bearings, drive-axles with differential, whether or not provided with other transmission components, and non-driving axles, and parts thereof, for tractors, motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, motor cars and other motor vehicles principall, tapered roller bearings, incl. cone and tapered roller assemblies.
▼ Expected to slow by 10.3% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity46 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity28 in the last 6 months
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What Darton trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 118 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 theWine 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)Threaded screws and bolts, of iron or steel, whether or not with their nuts and washers (excl. coach screws and other wood screws, screw hooks and screw rings, self-tapping screws, lag screws, stoppers, plugs and the like, threaded)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)Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillingsSurface-active preparations, washing preparations, auxiliary washing preparations and cleaning preparations put up for retail sale (excl. organic surface-active agents, soap and organic surface-active preparations in the form of bars, cakes, mouldedSweet biscuitsBeer made from malt
Common questions about trade in Darton
How many businesses import or export from Darton?
HMRC customs records show 118 businesses in Darton (S75) filed declarations over the last six months — 1,495 import declarations and 769 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Darton businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Darton 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, 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), threaded screws and bolts, of iron or steel, whether or not with their nuts and washers (excl. coach screws and other wood screws, screw hooks and screw rings, self-tapping screws, lag screws, stoppers, plugs and the like, threaded), 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). You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Darton growing?
Import activity is down 12.9% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 8.3%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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