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The Buyer Book · customs heading 7305

Who buys large steel tubes and pipes in the public sector.

279 public bodies issued 1,502 notices for goods in this family across 31 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 3.6bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.

279public buyers, named in the book
1,502goods notices in the family
31countries with at least one notice
USD 3.6bnimported 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 notices409
    Public buyers13
    Imports 2024USD 956m
  2. AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices398
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 855m
  3. CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices157
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 292m
  4. RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices112
    Public buyers24
    Imports 2024USD 210m
  5. GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices53
    Public buyers29
    Imports 2024USD 107m
  6. Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices43
    Public buyers13
    Imports 2024USD 23m
  7. PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices39
    Public buyers17
    Imports 2024USD 69m
  8. CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices38
    Public buyers10
    Imports 2024USD 38m
  9. HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices33
    Public buyers10
    Imports 2024USD 6m
  10. BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices29
    Public buyers12
    Imports 2024USD 23m
  11. SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices22
    Public buyers16
    Imports 2024USD 19m
  12. FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices20
    Public buyers18
    Imports 2024USD 78m
  13. DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices15
    Public buyers11
    Imports 2024USD 24m
  14. SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices15
    Public buyers13
    Imports 2024USD 29m
  15. ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices13
    Public buyers10
    Imports 2024USD 319m
  16. LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices13
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 3m
  17. SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices12
    Public buyers7
    Imports 2024USD 14m
  18. BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices10
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 64m
  19. AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices8
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 22m
  20. NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices8
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 121m
  21. FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers7
    Imports 2024USD 9m
  22. NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers7
    Imports 2024USD 139m
  23. IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 14m
  24. SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 12m
  25. GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices5
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 102m
  26. MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices5
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 278k
  27. PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices5
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 7m
  28. EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 9m
  29. SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 5m
  30. CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 10m
  31. LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 7m
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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