397 businesses in Huddersfield appear in HMRC customs records for the last six months. That puts it third in West Yorkshire for trade activity. Most of that activity sits in machinery and mechanical appliances, electrical machinery and electronics, plastics. Looking ahead, our model expects import activity here to pick up by around 4.2% over the next three months.
Refreshed every 24 hours · last run 22 Aug 2026, 20:36HMRC release in view: Jun 26Snapshot: 2026-08-22.1
5,819Import declarations▼ 1.2% on the 6 months before
2,423Export declarations
+4.2%Forecast, next 3 monthsBased on 2 years of data
397Trading businesses
Top 5 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 397 businesses.
★ Most active in HuddersfieldFiled more customs declarations than any other Huddersfield business over the last six months — roughly 7% of the town's total import activity, mostly in salt, stone and cement.
Most active business
BUY IT DIRECT LTD
393 import declarations241 export declarationsHD2 *Ch. 25Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 42Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include wooden furniture (excl. for offices, kitchens and bedrooms, and seats), electric ovens, cookers, cooking plates and boiling rings, electric grillers and roasters, for domestic use (excl. space-heating stoves and microwave ovens), appliances for baking, frying, grilling and cooking and plate warmers, for domestic use, of iron or steel, for gas fuel or for both gas and other fuels (excl. large cooking appliances).
▲ Expected to increase by 13.5% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity393 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity241 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
MAMAS & PAPAS LTD
179 import declarations136 export declarationsHD5 *Ch. 34Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 42Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds, baby carriages and parts thereof, n.e.s., babies' garments and clothing accessories of cotton, knitted or crocheted (excl. hats).
▲ Expected to increase by 8.6% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity179 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity136 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
FIRED UP CORPORATION LIMITED
132 import declarations47 export declarationsHD1 *Ch. 09Ch. 39Ch. 40Ch. 42Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include household articles and toilet articles, of plastics (excl. tableware, kitchenware, baths, shower-baths, washbasins, bidets, lavatory pans, seats and covers, flushing cisterns and similar sanitary ware), armoured or reinforced safes, strongboxes and doors and safe deposit lockers for strongrooms, cash or deed boxes and the like, of base metal, stoves, heaters, grates, fires, wash boilers, braziers and similar appliances, of iron or steel, for liquid fuel (excl. cooking appliances, whether or not with oven, separate ovens, plate warmers, central heating boilers, geysers, hot water cylinders.
▲ Expected to increase by 0.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity132 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity47 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
CONTINENTAL WINE & FOOD LTD
464 import declarations12 export declarationsHD2 *Ch. 02Ch. 04Ch. 07Ch. 09Active in 6 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), 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, pasta, stuffed with meat or other substances, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared.
▲ Expected to increase by 3.6% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity464 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity12 in the last 6 months
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Among the most active
HELA BRANDS LIMITED
185 import declarations147 export declarationsHD3 *Ch. 39Ch. 42Ch. 48Ch. 61Active in 6 of the last 6 months
Recent shipments include jerseys, pullovers, cardigans, waistcoats and similar articles, of cotton, knitted or crocheted (excl. wadded waistcoats), men's or boys' tracksuits and other garments, n.e.s. of man-made fibres (excl. knitted or crocheted), jerseys, pullovers, cardigans, waistcoats and similar articles, of man-made fibres, knitted or crocheted (excl. wadded waistcoats).
▲ Expected to increase by 10.0% over the next 3 months, based on their last 2 years
Imports — 2 years of monthly activity185 in the last 6 months
Exports — 2 years of monthly activity147 in the last 6 months
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What Huddersfield trades
The most frequently declared goods across all 397 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)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)Wooden furniture (excl. for offices, kitchens and bedrooms, and seats)Articles of iron or steel, n.e.s. (excl. cast articles or articles of iron or steel wire)Articles of plastics and articles of other materials of heading 3901 to 3914, n.e.s (excl. goods of 9619)Made-up articles of textile materials, incl. dress patterns, n.e.s.Parts of: air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors, fans and ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, and gas-tight biological safety cabinets, n.e.s.
Common questions about trade in Huddersfield
How many businesses import or export from Huddersfield?
HMRC customs records show 397 businesses in Huddersfield (HD1, HD2, HD3, HD4) filed declarations over the last six months — 5,819 import declarations and 2,423 export declarations in total. This page is rebuilt every 24 hours as new HMRC data is published.
What do Huddersfield businesses import most?
The most common category is machinery and mechanical appliances. Across all Huddersfield 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), tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size "scale" recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds, 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), wooden furniture (excl. for offices, kitchens and bedrooms, and seats). You can filter the full list by HMRC category once logged in.
Is trade from Huddersfield growing?
Import activity is down 1.2% compared with the previous six months. Our model, which reads two years of monthly history, expects the next three months to rise by roughly 4.2%. That figure is our estimate, not an HMRC projection.
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