HMRC records show 77 businesses trading internationally from Boston Spa over the last six months. It ranks 23 of 43 trading locations in West Yorkshire. 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 11.6% 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
853Import declarations▼ 14.4% on the 6 months before
353Export declarations
−11.6%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
77Trading 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 77 businesses.
★ Most active in Boston SpaFiled more customs declarations than any other Boston Spa business over the last six months — roughly 25% of the town's total import activity, mostly in meat and edible offal.
Most active business
GREY PEARL LTD
210 import declarations1 export declarationsLS23 *Ch. 02Ch. 03Ch. 04Ch. 09Active 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), sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products, 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.
▼ Expected to slow by 5.2% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity210 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity1 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
GO HOME DIRECT TRADING LIMITED
28 import declarations16 export declarationsLS23 *Ch. 48Ch. 49Ch. 69Ch. 73Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include refractory bricks, blocks, tiles and similar refractory ceramic constructional goods (excl. containing, by weight, singly or together, > 50% of the elements mg, ca or cr, expressed as mgo, cao or cr2o3, containing, by weight, > 50% alumina, silica or, radiators for central heating, non-electrically heated, and parts thereof, of iron other than cast iron or steel (excl. parts, elsewhere specified or included, and central-heating boilers), air conditioning machines incorporating a refrigerating unit but without a valve for reversal of the cooling-heat cycle (excl. of a kind used for persons in motor vehicles, and self-contained or "split-system" window or wall air conditioning machines.
▼ Expected to slow by 18.8% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity28 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity16 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
CHASE ATLANTIC LIMITED
41 import declarations2 export declarationsLS23 *Ch. 39Ch. 44Ch. 48Ch. 69Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include base metal mountings and fittings suitable for buildings (excl. locks with keys and hinges), locks of base metal (excl. padlocks and locks for motor vehicles or furniture), hinges of all kinds, of base metal.
▼ Expected to slow by 11.5% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity41 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity2 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
OVERFINCH LIMITED
9 import declarations34 export declarationsLS23 *Ch. 40Ch. 42Ch. 44Ch. 57Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include articles of leather or composition leather (excl. saddlery and harness bags; cases and similar containers; apparel and clothing accessories; whips, riding-crops and similar of heading 6602; furniture; lighting appliances; toys; games; sports articles, parts and accessories, 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 purpose motor v, parts of seats, not of wood, 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 activity9 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity34 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
TECHNICAL FILTRATION SYSTEMS LTD
22 import declarations9 export declarationsLS23 *Ch. 40Ch. 73Ch. 83Ch. 84Active in 5 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include intake air filters for internal combustion engines, tubes, pipes and hoses, of vulcanised rubber (excl. hard rubber), not reinforced or otherwise combined with other materials, without fittings, parts of machinery and apparatus for filtering or purifying liquids or gases, n.e.s..
▲ Expected to increase by 8.3% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity22 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity9 in the last 6 months
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What Boston Spa trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 77 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)Base metal mountings, fittings and similar articles suitable for furniture (excl. locks with keys, hinges and castors)Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these productsBread, 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 theJerseys, pullovers, cardigans, waistcoats and similar articles, of man-made fibres, knitted or crocheted (excl. wadded waistcoats)Beauty or make-up preparations and preparations for the care of the skin (other than medicaments), incl. sunscreen or suntan preparations (excl. medicaments, lip and eye make-up preparations, manicure or pedicure preparations and make-up or skin careMeat of swine, salted, in brine, dried or smoked (excl. hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in, and bellies and cuts thereof)Cheese (excl. fresh cheese, incl. whey cheese, curd, processed cheese, blue-veined cheese and other cheese containing veins produced by "Penicillium roqueforti", and grated or powdered cheese)
Common questions about trade in Boston Spa
How many businesses import or export from Boston Spa?
HMRC customs records show 77 businesses in Boston Spa (LS23) filed declarations over the last six months — 853 import declarations and 353 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Boston Spa businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Boston Spa 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), base metal mountings, fittings and similar articles suitable for furniture (excl. locks with keys, hinges and castors), sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products, 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. You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Boston Spa growing?
Import activity is down 14.4% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to soften by roughly 11.6%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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