Who buys spoons, forks, ladles, skimmers, cake-servers, fish-knives in the public sector.
731 public bodies issued 1,338 notices for goods in this family across 32 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 1.6bn 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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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices254Public buyers50Imports 2024USD 16m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices241Public buyers221Imports 2024USD 104m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices140Public buyers62Imports 2024USD 21m
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices99Public buyers53Imports 2024USD 59m
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices90Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 59m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices59Public buyers35Imports 2024USD 67m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices57Public buyers49Imports 2024USD 179m
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices51Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 46m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices47Public buyers34Imports 2024USD 23m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices44Public buyers27Imports 2024USD 5m
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United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices32Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 487m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices23Public buyers20Imports 2024USD 32m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices23Public buyers20Imports 2024USD 14m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices21Public buyers16Imports 2024USD 60m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices17Public buyers15Imports 2024USD 22m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices17Public buyers15Imports 2024USD 78m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices16Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 11m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices12Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 104m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 8m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 8m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 8m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices10Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 14m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 5m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 21m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 17m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 41m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 3m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 3m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 11m
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LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 3m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 28m
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CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 5m
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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