Who buys articles of plastics in the public sector.
1,186 public bodies issued 2,935 notices for goods in this family across 32 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 60bn 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 notices459Public buyers47Imports 2024USD 16bn
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices351Public buyers311Imports 2024USD 4.2bn
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices324Public buyers25Imports 2024USD 2.2bn
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices302Public buyers71Imports 2024USD 2.3bn
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices288Public buyers26Imports 2024USD 1.2bn
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices192Public buyers71Imports 2024USD 263m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices157Public buyers56Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices140Public buyers86Imports 2024USD 2.8bn
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices124Public buyers97Imports 2024USD 8.5bn
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices92Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 180m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices90Public buyers60Imports 2024USD 2.1bn
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices76Public buyers61Imports 2024USD 2.7bn
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices57Public buyers53Imports 2024USD 2.1bn
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices32Public buyers24Imports 2024USD 266m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices30Public buyers25Imports 2024USD 1.6bn
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices27Public buyers26Imports 2024USD 2.5bn
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices23Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 1.2bn
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices20Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 110m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices18Public buyers13Imports 2024USD 545m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices17Public buyers13Imports 2024USD 1.4bn
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 209m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 604m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers13Imports 2024USD 956m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices13Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 649m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices12Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 82m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 326m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 44m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 229m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
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LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 84m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 664m
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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