Who buys containers of aluminium in the public sector.
545 public bodies issued 880 notices for goods in this family across 32 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 5.1bn 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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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices122Public buyers16Imports 2024USD 567m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices106Public buyers93Imports 2024USD 448m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices90Public buyers71Imports 2024USD 273m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices86Public buyers65Imports 2024USD 565m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices80Public buyers45Imports 2024USD 139m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices39Public buyers23Imports 2024USD 78m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices37Public buyers27Imports 2024USD 115m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices37Public buyers32Imports 2024USD 69m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices27Public buyers16Imports 2024USD 46m
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United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices25Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 364m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices23Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 38m
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices21Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 27m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices20Public buyers17Imports 2024USD 288m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices18Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 26m
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices18Public buyers18Imports 2024USD 258m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices17Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 40m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices13Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 129m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices12Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 107m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 197m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 33m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices10Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 79m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices10Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 401m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices8Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 45m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 41m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 172m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 72m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 48m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices6Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 366m
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LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 1m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 10m
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CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 10m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 29m
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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