Who buys blood, vaccines, toxins and cultures in the public sector.
333 public bodies issued 24,967 notices for goods in this family across 29 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 229bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.
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.
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United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices22,995Public buyers24Imports 2024USD 78bn
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices749Public buyers83Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices330Public buyers24Imports 2024USD 1.7bn
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices290Public buyers52Imports 2024USD 4.5bn
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices234Public buyers43Imports 2024USD 6.2bn
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CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices98Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 78m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices34Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices28Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 641m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices27Public buyers24Imports 2024USD 12bn
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices25Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 828m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices21Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 335m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices18Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 16bn
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices16Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 12bn
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 159m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices10Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 4.4bn
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 647m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices8Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 6.9bn
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 414m
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 41m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 35bn
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 2.4bn
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 2.9bn
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices6Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 9.6bn
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 1.4bn
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 7.0bn
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 127m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 14bn
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 6.9bn
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.
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.
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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