Who buys wadding, gauze, bandages and the like in the public sector.
1,417 public bodies issued 8,897 notices for goods in this family across 33 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 7.4bn 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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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2,523Public buyers381Imports 2024USD 185m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1,679Public buyers137Imports 2024USD 37m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices843Public buyers175Imports 2024USD 275m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices755Public buyers69Imports 2024USD 121m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices656Public buyers81Imports 2024USD 24m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices444Public buyers38Imports 2024USD 30m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices270Public buyers36Imports 2024USD 16m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices176Public buyers37Imports 2024USD 54m
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices175Public buyers15Imports 2024USD 238m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices151Public buyers15Imports 2024USD 63m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices150Public buyers64Imports 2024USD 505m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices126Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 18m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices119Public buyers35Imports 2024USD 410m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices117Public buyers38Imports 2024USD 59m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices115Public buyers28Imports 2024USD 17m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices109Public buyers59Imports 2024USD 261m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices76Public buyers23Imports 2024USD 115m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices70Public buyers28Imports 2024USD 153m
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices56Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 195m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices44Public buyers36Imports 2024USD 962m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices43Public buyers27Imports 2024USD 336m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices39Public buyers14Imports 2024USD 65m
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CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices30Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 8m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices26Public buyers16Imports 2024USD 146m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices23Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 167m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices19Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 55m
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices18Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 4m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices16Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 10m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices12Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 729m
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United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices10Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 1.9bn
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 85m
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LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 16m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 132m
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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