Who buys soap and washing preparations in the public sector.
237 public bodies issued 536 notices for goods in this family across 31 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 8.4bn 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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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices98Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 728m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices53Public buyers32Imports 2024USD 227m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices43Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 222m
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices35Public buyers20Imports 2024USD 341m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices35Public buyers14Imports 2024USD 182m
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices34Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 366m
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United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices30Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 1.7bn
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices27Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 21m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices26Public buyers25Imports 2024USD 620m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices23Public buyers17Imports 2024USD 910m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices16Public buyers16Imports 2024USD 259m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices16Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 106m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 49m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 51m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices10Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 110m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 15m
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices8Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 12m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 33m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 128m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 131m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 500m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 30m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 188m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 61m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 88m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 143m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 246m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 100m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 601m
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CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 25m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 147m
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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