Who buys hand tools, of base metal in the public sector.
162 public bodies issued 2,124 notices for goods in this family across 29 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 5.6bn 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 notices1,895Public buyers17Imports 2024USD 1.6bn
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices37Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 307m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices37Public buyers31Imports 2024USD 457m
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices20Public buyers14Imports 2024USD 240m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices15Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 47m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices13Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 732m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices12Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 100m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices12Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 212m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 24m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 20m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 47m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 13m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 277m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 41m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 26m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices5Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 326m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 15m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 87m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 190m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 195m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 61m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 71m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 54m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 82m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 139m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 49m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 21m
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 4m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 106m
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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