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The Buyer Book · customs heading 2804

Who buys hydrogen, rare gases and other non-metals in the public sector.

418 public bodies issued 1,331 notices for goods in this family across 28 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 5.4bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.

418public buyers, named in the book
1,331goods notices in the family
28countries with at least one notice
USD 5.4bnimported by those countries in 2024
Country by country

The counts are free. The list is withheld.

Ranked by notices in the family. A US count is federal contract actions, delivery orders included, so it is not comparable with a European notice count: compare buyers within a country, and use the import bill to compare countries.

  1. United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices718
    Public buyers33
    Imports 2024USD 961m
  2. RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices122
    Public buyers53
    Imports 2024USD 31m
  3. PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices76
    Public buyers62
    Imports 2024USD 196m
  4. Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices65
    Public buyers31
    Imports 2024USD 108m
  5. FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices48
    Public buyers41
    Imports 2024USD 644m
  6. SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices44
    Public buyers33
    Imports 2024USD 108m
  7. AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices43
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 54m
  8. GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices38
    Public buyers30
    Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
  9. ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices29
    Public buyers22
    Imports 2024USD 299m
  10. HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices22
    Public buyers15
    Imports 2024USD 54m
  11. United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026
    Goods notices17
    Public buyers16
    Imports 2024USD 377m
  12. BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices14
    Public buyers10
    Imports 2024USD 11m
  13. CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices11
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 13m
  14. EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices11
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 7m
  15. PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices10
    Public buyers9
    Imports 2024USD 21m
  16. GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices9
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 28m
  17. LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices9
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 7m
  18. BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices8
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 184m
  19. CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 160m
  20. SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 39m
  21. LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 7m
  22. NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 447m
  23. DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 113m
  24. IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 75m
  25. SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 27m
  26. NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 81m
  27. SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 42m
  28. SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 49m
Withheld here

The full Buyer Book names the ten most frequent public buyers in every country above, with one notice title each as the buyer published it, the three largest source countries of the import bill, and the record and window behind every count. It is a document, bought by email. No award value appears in it, and no supplier: companies appear only as public buyers.

How it is counted

Two public records, joined.

The join from a buyer's procurement code to a customs heading runs through crosswalks BuzzBaboon authored, because no official one exists, so it is approximate: a count is a product family, never a claim that a buyer bought one exact line.

A notice counts only when the buyer classified the purchase as goods and its code matches a specific crosswalk key, never a broad division. Identical rows count once; US prime-vendor ledger rows are left out. The import bill is CEPII BACI for 2024, summed over the heading's six-digit lines: what crossed the border, public and private buyers together.

What it cannot tell you

A list of where to look.

Which company won any notice, what any award was worth, or whether a buyer will buy again. The records carry framework ceilings and typing errors, so values are never shown. Award records are those of 33 countries that publish one openly with at least 500 notices a year; a country missing here publishes none this record can read. Nothing on this page is a forecast or a promise.

Sources: TED, USAspending, open.canada.ca, AusTender, Contracts Finder, CEPII BACI. Edition of 3 November 2026.

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