Who buys tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, seamless, of iron or steel in the public sector.
279 public bodies issued 1,519 notices for goods in this family across 31 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 11bn 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 notices409Public buyers13Imports 2024USD 3.2bn
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices408Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 306m
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices164Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 883m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices112Public buyers24Imports 2024USD 223m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices53Public buyers29Imports 2024USD 1.0bn
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices43Public buyers13Imports 2024USD 248m
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices39Public buyers17Imports 2024USD 374m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices38Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 38m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices33Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 104m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices29Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 67m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices22Public buyers16Imports 2024USD 311m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices20Public buyers18Imports 2024USD 628m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices15Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 97m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices15Public buyers13Imports 2024USD 116m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices13Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 856m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices13Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 20m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices12Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 40m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices10Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 242m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices8Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 223m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices8Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 746m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 95m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 397m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 42m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 80m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 40m
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 5m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 66m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 14m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 74m
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CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 8m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 5m
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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