Who buys tanks, drums, cans and boxes of iron or steel in the public sector.
609 public bodies issued 1,880 notices for goods in this family across 32 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 4.8bn 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 notices554Public buyers27Imports 2024USD 499m
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices303Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 81m
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices267Public buyers19Imports 2024USD 360m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices107Public buyers94Imports 2024USD 564m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices91Public buyers72Imports 2024USD 97m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices90Public buyers69Imports 2024USD 605m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices80Public buyers45Imports 2024USD 179m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices47Public buyers29Imports 2024USD 77m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices38Public buyers28Imports 2024USD 109m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices38Public buyers33Imports 2024USD 57m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices29Public buyers18Imports 2024USD 49m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices25Public buyers16Imports 2024USD 27m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices25Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 22m
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices24Public buyers21Imports 2024USD 208m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices20Public buyers17Imports 2024USD 427m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices18Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 18m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 86m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices12Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 49m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices12Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 49m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 77m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 70m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices10Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 409m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices8Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 39m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 37m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 16m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 152m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices7Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 318m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 43m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 49m
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LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 18m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 12m
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CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 3m
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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