🇬🇧 United Kingdom importer · official customs records

NIAB

Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LE🇬🇧 United Kingdom
On record January 2016 to August 2026🔒 Compliance check
Instruments and apparatusCerealsReagents
Product lines
81
Jan ’16 to Aug ’26
Products
12
HS subheadings on record
Rank · instruments and apparatus
One of 6,049
of 6,049 importers in 2025
Months active
57
of 57 on record
Latest activity
Aug ’26
most recent month on record

Import activity

January 2016 to August 2026
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What NIAB imports

share of declarations
Instruments and apparatus, using optical radiations (UV, visible, IR), (other than spectrometers, spectrophotometers and spectrographs) (HS 90275000): 20.9%Instruments and apparatus, usingoptical radiations (UV, visible,IR), (other than spectrometers,21% HS 90275000Cereals (HS 10): 12.1%Cereals12% HS 10Reagents, diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, whether or not put up in the form of kits, in item 3822.1 (HS 38221900): 11.0%Reagents, diagnostic or laboratoryreagents on a backing, prepareddiagnostic or laboratory reagents11% HS 38221900Machines, for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables (HS 84371000): 9.9%Machines, for cleaning,sorting or grading seed, grainor dried leguminous vegetables9.9% HS 84371000Nucleic acids and their salts, other heterocyclic compounds in heading number 2934 (HS 29349990): 8.8%Nucleic acids and their salts,other heterocyclic compoundsin heading number 29348.8% HS 29349990Paper and paperboard, filter paper and paperboard (HS 48232000): 7.7%Paper and paperboard,filter paper andpaperboard7.7% HS 48232000Harvesting machinery, parts, including parts of threshing machinery, straw or fodder balers and grass or hay mowers (HS 84339000): 5.5%Harvesting machinery,parts, includingparts of threshing5.5% HS 84339000Machinery, industrial, brewery machinery (HS 84384000): 5.5%Machinery,industrial, brewerymachinery5.5% HS 84384000Instruments, appliances and machines, for measuring or checking in chapter 90 (HS 90318080): 5.5%Instruments,appliances andmachines, for5.5% HS 90318080Plants, live, in heading no. 0602 (HS 06029045): 4.4%Plants,live, inheading no.4.4%Toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products, in item 3002.3 (HS 30024900): 4.4%Toxins,cultures ofmicro-organ…4.4%Machinery, for agricultural, horticultural or forestry use and in heading no. 8436 (HS 84368010): 4.4%Machinery,foragricultura…4.4%
HS codeProductShareRanked
90275000Instruments and apparatus, using optical radiations (UV, visible, IR), (other than spectrometers, spectrophotometers and spectrographs)12.3%#1 · 4 yrs
10Cereals7.1%#1 · 3 yrs
38221900Reagents, diagnostic or laboratory reagents on a backing, prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents whether or not on a backing, whether or not put up in the form of kits, in item 3822.16.5%#1 · 2 yrs
84371000Machines, for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables5.8%#1 · 2 yrs
29349990Nucleic acids and their salts, other heterocyclic compounds in heading number 29345.2%#1 · 2 yrs
48232000Paper and paperboard, filter paper and paperboard4.5%#2 · 2 yrs
84339000Harvesting machinery, parts, including parts of threshing machinery, straw or fodder balers and grass or hay mowers3.2%#1 · 2022
84384000Machinery, industrial, brewery machinery3.2%#1 · 2017
90318080Instruments, appliances and machines, for measuring or checking in chapter 903.2%#1 · 2021
06029045Plants, live, in heading no. 06022.6%#2 · 2016

Trade lanes

9 counterparty markets → United Kingdom imports of instruments and apparatus
UNITED STATESGERMANYCHINAJAPANSWITZERLANDSINGAPORECZECHIAUNITED KINGDOM
🇺🇸 United States 28%🇩🇪 Germany 15%🇨🇳 China 8%

Market-wide sourcing of instruments and apparatus into United Kingdom; the directory does not publish origins per importer.

Largest importers of instruments and apparatus

ranked by activity on record
#CompanyActiveMonths activeProducts
1ABB LIMITED11 yr12820
2AMETEK (GB) LIMITED11 yr12819
3TSI INSTRUMENTS LTD11 yr12819
4COLE-PARMER INSTRUMENT COMPANY11 yr12818
5HORIBA UK LIMITED11 yr12817
6PROCESS INSTRUMENTS (U.K.) LIMITED11 yr12817
7THERMO ELECTRON MANUFACTURING LIMITED11 yr12817
8EDINBURGH INSTRUMENTS LTD11 yr12816
9ELCOMETER LIMITED11 yr12816
10LIFE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED11 yr12816

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Common questions

What does NIAB import?

UK customs trader records (HMRC) and Companies House list instruments and apparatus, cereals and reagents as NIAB's principal imports (ranked by HS subheading, 12 products on record).

Who else imports instruments and apparatus in United Kingdom?

ABB LIMITED, AMETEK (GB) LIMITED and TSI INSTRUMENTS LTD rank among the largest importers of instruments and apparatus (HS 9027) in United Kingdom, out of 6,049 importers on record in 2025.

Where does this data come from?

Directly from UK customs trader records (HMRC) and Companies House. Exsigo ingests the official records; nothing here is scraped from directories or estimated.