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The Buyer Book · customs heading 7326

Who buys articles of iron or steel in the public sector.

136 public bodies issued 4,597 notices for goods in this family across 28 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 38bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.

136public buyers, named in the book
4,597goods notices in the family
28countries with at least one notice
USD 38bnimported 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 notices4,459
    Public buyers64
    Imports 2024USD 8.3bn
  2. AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices27
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
  3. SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices16
    Public buyers9
    Imports 2024USD 1.5bn
  4. RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices15
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 956m
  5. Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices14
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 1.2bn
  6. PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices9
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 1.6bn
  7. CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 1.5bn
  8. GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 6.4bn
  9. BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices5
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 170m
  10. SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices5
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 864m
  11. ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 1.4bn
  12. EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 94m
  13. HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 914m
  14. SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 825m
  15. AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
  16. FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 2.9bn
  17. GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 117m
  18. NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 638m
  19. PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 349m
  20. SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 746m
  21. United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 1.7bn
  22. BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 925m
  23. FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 417m
  24. IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 301m
  25. LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 119m
  26. MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 13m
  27. NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 1.5bn
  28. SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 203m
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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