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The Buyer Book · customs heading 6506

Who buys headgear in the public sector.

653 public bodies issued 2,249 notices for goods in this family across 31 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 3.5bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.

653public buyers, named in the book
2,249goods notices in the family
31countries with at least one notice
USD 3.5bnimported 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 notices735
    Public buyers49
    Imports 2024USD 607m
  2. AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices285
    Public buyers14
    Imports 2024USD 114m
  3. CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices200
    Public buyers17
    Imports 2024USD 135m
  4. GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices166
    Public buyers121
    Imports 2024USD 528m
  5. Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices121
    Public buyers27
    Imports 2024USD 78m
  6. PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices100
    Public buyers64
    Imports 2024USD 158m
  7. SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices89
    Public buyers41
    Imports 2024USD 203m
  8. FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices67
    Public buyers60
    Imports 2024USD 404m
  9. RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices66
    Public buyers24
    Imports 2024USD 18m
  10. United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026
    Goods notices47
    Public buyers36
    Imports 2024USD 162m
  11. LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices40
    Public buyers7
    Imports 2024USD 6m
  12. ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices39
    Public buyers27
    Imports 2024USD 204m
  13. BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices36
    Public buyers10
    Imports 2024USD 8m
  14. BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices35
    Public buyers24
    Imports 2024USD 82m
  15. IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices30
    Public buyers14
    Imports 2024USD 16m
  16. CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices28
    Public buyers9
    Imports 2024USD 10m
  17. PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices24
    Public buyers17
    Imports 2024USD 17m
  18. LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices19
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 9m
  19. NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices16
    Public buyers13
    Imports 2024USD 182m
  20. AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices14
    Public buyers9
    Imports 2024USD 123m
  21. SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices13
    Public buyers12
    Imports 2024USD 92m
  22. GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices11
    Public buyers9
    Imports 2024USD 25m
  23. SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices11
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 36m
  24. SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices11
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 14m
  25. EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices9
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 7m
  26. NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices9
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 51m
  27. DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 43m
  28. FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers7
    Imports 2024USD 57m
  29. SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 81m
  30. HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices5
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 14m
  31. MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 808k
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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