Who buys tools, interchangeable, for hand tools, or for machine tools in the public sector.
174 public bodies issued 298 notices for goods in this family across 31 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 13bn 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 notices50Public buyers14Imports 2024USD 3.1bn
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices40Public buyers34Imports 2024USD 746m
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices30Public buyers19Imports 2024USD 533m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices17Public buyers13Imports 2024USD 445m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices16Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 149m
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 785m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 382m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 2.3bn
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices13Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 187m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 178m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices8Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 48m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 15m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 536m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 105m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 645m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices6Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 530m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 46m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 177m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 272m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 20m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 89m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 226m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 141m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 151m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 129m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 33m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 399m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 40m
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LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 100m
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 3m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 592m
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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