124 businesses in Bury St Edmunds appear in HMRC customs records for the last six months. That puts it third in Suffolk 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 10.1% 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
2,229Import declarations▼ 17.7% on the 6 months before
1,274Export declarations
−10.1%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
124Trading 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 124 businesses.
★ Most active in Bury St EdmundsFiled more customs declarations than any other Bury St Edmunds business over the last six months — roughly 29% of the town's total import activity, mostly in vegetable plaiting materials.
Most active business
JACK SEALEY LIMITED
656 import declarations219 export declarationsIP32 *Ch. 14Ch. 26Ch. 27Ch. 28Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include electromechanical tools for working in the hand, with self-contained electric motor (excl. saws and drills), 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, articles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire).
▼ Expected to slow by 11.4% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity656 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity219 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
GREENE KING LIMITED
121 import declarations10 export declarationsIP33 *Ch. 12Ch. 22Ch. 35Ch. 38Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include 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), beer made from malt, sparkling wine of fresh grapes.
▼ Expected to slow by 11.4% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity121 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity10 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
S R S AROMATICS LIMITED
101 import declarations17 export declarationsIP32 *Ch. 13Ch. 21Ch. 29Ch. 33Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include essential oils, whether or not terpeneless, incl. concretes and absolutes (excl. those of citrus fruit and mint), butanoic acids, pentanoic acids, their salts and esters, esters of acetic acid (excl. ethyl, vinyl, n-butyl and dinoseb [iso] acetates).
▼ Expected to slow by 5.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity101 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity17 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
VIDENDUM MEDIA SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED
50 import declarations58 export declarationsIP32 *Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 42Ch. 43Active 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, monopods, bipods, tripods and similar articles, impregnated, coated or covered textile fabrics; painted canvas being theatrical scenery, studio backcloths or the like, n.e.s..
▼ Expected to slow by 23.2% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity50 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity58 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
NEILL'S MATERIALS LIMITED
56 import declarations13 export declarationsIP32 *Ch. 25Ch. 28Ch. 29Ch. 32Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include chemical products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries, incl. those consisting of mixtures of natural products, n.e.s., lubricant preparations, incl. cutting-oil preparations, bolt or nut release preparations, anti-rust or anti-corrosion preparations and mould-release preparations, based on lubricants but not containing petroleum oil or bituminous mineral oil (excl. p, adhesives based on polymers of headings 3901 to 3913 or on rubber (excl. put up for retail sale with a net weight of <= 1 kg).
▼ Expected to slow by 8.1% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity56 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity13 in the last 6 months
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What Bury St Edmunds trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 124 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.
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)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)Essential oils, whether or not terpeneless, incl. concretes and absolutes (excl. those of citrus fruit and mint)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 essMixtures of odoriferous substances and mixtures, incl. alcoholic solutions, based on one or more of these substances, of a kind used as raw materials in industry (excl. food or drink industries)Butanoic acids, pentanoic acids, their salts and estersOils of sweet and bitter orange, whether or not terpeneless, incl. concretes and absolutes (excl. orange-flower oil)Beer made from malt
Common questions about trade in Bury St Edmunds
How many businesses import or export from Bury St Edmunds?
HMRC customs records show 124 businesses in Bury St Edmunds (IP32, IP33) filed declarations over the last six months — 2,229 import declarations and 1,274 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Bury St Edmunds businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Bury St Edmunds traders the leading goods are 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), 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), essential oils, whether or not terpeneless, incl. concretes and absolutes (excl. those of citrus fruit and mint), 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 ess. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Bury St Edmunds growing?
Import activity is down 17.7% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 10.1%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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