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East Suffolk importers & exporters

Q: How many businesses import or export from East Suffolk?

HMRC customs records show 166 businesses in East Suffolk (IP10, IP13, IP17, IP19) filed declarations over the last six months — 1,136 import declarations and 480 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.

Q: What do East Suffolk businesses import most?

The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all East Suffolk traders the leading goods are live plants, incl. their roots, and mushroom spawn (excl. bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, incl. chicory plants and roots, unrooted cuttings and slips, fruit and nut trees, rhododendrons, azaleas and roses), fresh or chilled cuts and edible offal of fowls of the species gallus domesticus, tables for casino games, automatic bowling alley equipment, and other funfair, table or parlour games, incl. pintables (excl. operated by any means of payment, billiards, video game consoles and machines, and playing cards), salts, incl. table salt and denatured salt, and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free-flowing agents; sea water. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.

Q: Is trade from East Suffolk growing?

Import activity is down 9.3% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 11.4%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.

Q: How do I get contact details for East Suffolk importers?

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Over the last six months, 166 East Suffolk businesses filed customs declarations. It ranks 10 of 20 trading locations in Suffolk. Most of that activity sits in machinery and mechanical appliances, electrical machinery and electronics, optical, photographic and medical instruments. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to ease back by around 11.4% over the next three months.

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1,136Import declarations▼ 9.3% on the 6 months before

480Export declarations

−11.4%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data

166Trading 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 166 businesses.

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★ Most active in East SuffolkFiled more customs declarations than any other East Suffolk business over the last six months — roughly 6% of the town's total import activity, mostly in dyes, pigments, paints and inks.

Most active business

JST (UK) LTD

72 import declarations 47 export declarations IP19 *Ch. 32Ch. 33Ch. 39Ch. 40 Active in 5 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include pliers, incl. cutting pliers, pincers and tweezers for non-medical use and similar hand tools, of base metal, parts and accessories for machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally for the manufacture of semiconductor boules or wafers, semiconductor devices, electronic integrated circuits or flat panel displays, and for machines and apparatus, machine tools for working metal, sintered metal carbides or cermets, without removing metal (excl. forging, bending, folding, straightening and flattening presses, shearing machines, punching or notching machines, presses, draw-benches, thread rollin.

▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity72 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity47 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

BDK INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS LTD

21 import declarations 33 export declarations IP10 *Ch. 30Ch. 32Ch. 35Ch. 39 Active in 5 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include interchangeable dies for drawing or extruding metal, paper and paperboard, surface-coloured, surface-decorated or printed, coated, impregnated or covered with artificial resins or plastics, in rolls or in square or rectangular sheets, of any size (excl. bleached and weighing > 150 g/m , and adhesives), 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 31.2% 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 activity33 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

BELDEN UK LTD

50 import declarations 2 export declarations IP13 *Ch. 39Ch. 56Ch. 70Ch. 74 Active in 5 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include articles of copper, n.e.s., twine, cordage, ropes and cables, of synthetic fibres, whether or not plaited or braided and whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or sheathed with rubber or plastics (excl. polyethylene and polypropylene), twine, cordage, ropes and cables of polyethylene or polypropylene, whether or not plaited or braided and whether or not impregnated, coated, covered or sheathed with rubber or plastics (excl. binder or baler twine).

▼ Expected to slow by 7.4% 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 activity2 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

GREEN LABEL FOODS LTD

45 import declarations 4 export declarations IP13 *Ch. 02Ch. 16Ch. 20Ch. 27 Active in 5 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include fresh or chilled cuts and edible offal of fowls of the species gallus domesticus, meat and edible offal of domestic guinea fowls, fresh, chilled or frozen, fresh or chilled fowls of the species gallus domesticus, not cut in pieces.

▼ Expected to slow by 18.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years

Imports — 2 years of monthly activity45 in the last 6 months

Exports — 2 years of monthly activity4 in the last 6 months

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Among the most active

BRAFE ENGINEERING LIMITED

24 import declarations 15 export declarations IP13 *Ch. 22Ch. 25Ch. 29Ch. 38 Active in 5 of the last 6 months

Recent shipments include moulds for metal or metal carbides (excl. moulds of graphite or other carbons, ceramic or glass moulds, linotype moulds or matrices, injection or compression-type moulds and ingot moulds), parts of valves and similar articles for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, n.e.s., prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores.

▼ Expected to slow by 8.3% 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 activity15 in the last 6 months

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What East Suffolk trades

The most frequently declared goods across all 166 businesses in the last six months — useful for picking which trade lanes to prospect.

Live plants, incl. their roots, and mushroom spawn (excl. bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, incl. chicory plants and roots, unrooted cuttings and slips, fruit and nut trees, rhododendrons, azaleas and roses)Fresh or chilled cuts and edible offal of fowls of the species Gallus domesticusTables for casino games, automatic bowling alley equipment, and other funfair, table or parlour games, incl. pintables (excl. operated by any means of payment, billiards, video game consoles and machines, and playing cards)Salts, incl. table salt and denatured salt, and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free-flowing agents; sea waterMen's or boys' trousers, bib and brace overalls, breeches and shorts of synthetic fibres (excl. knitted or crocheted, underpants and swimwear)Parts and accessories of bodies for tractors, motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons, motor vehicles for the transport of goods and special purposPreparations of a kind used in animal feeding (excl. dog or cat food put up for retail sale)Percussion musical instruments, e.g. drums, xylophones, cymbals, castanets, maracas

Common questions about trade in East Suffolk

How many businesses import or export from East Suffolk?

HMRC customs records show 166 businesses in East Suffolk (IP10, IP13, IP17, IP19) filed declarations over the last six months — 1,136 import declarations and 480 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.

What do East Suffolk businesses import most?

The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all East Suffolk traders the leading goods are live plants, incl. their roots, and mushroom spawn (excl. bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, incl. chicory plants and roots, unrooted cuttings and slips, fruit and nut trees, rhododendrons, azaleas and roses), fresh or chilled cuts and edible offal of fowls of the species gallus domesticus, tables for casino games, automatic bowling alley equipment, and other funfair, table or parlour games, incl. pintables (excl. operated by any means of payment, billiards, video game consoles and machines, and playing cards), salts, incl. table salt and denatured salt, and pure sodium chloride, whether or not in aqueous solution or containing added anti-caking or free-flowing agents; sea water. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.

Is trade from East Suffolk growing?

Import activity is down 9.3% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 11.4%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.

How do I get contact details for East Suffolk importers?

Create an account to see all 166 businesses, open their Companies House records, run AI research on their website and buying signals, and reveal validated email and LinkedIn contacts.

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East Suffolk importers & exporters

Top 10 businesses by 6-month activity Free tier

JST (UK) LTD

BDK INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS LTD

BELDEN UK LTD

GREEN LABEL FOODS LTD

BRAFE ENGINEERING LIMITED

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What East Suffolk trades

Common questions about trade in East Suffolk

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