The Buyer Book · customs heading 8302

Who buys base metal mountings and fittings in the public sector.

282 public bodies issued 3,541 notices for goods in this family across 31 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 28bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.

282public buyers, named in the book

3,541goods notices in the family

31countries with at least one notice

USD 28bnimported 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.

United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026

Goods notices2,460

Public buyers40

Imports 2024USD 8.8bn
AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026

Goods notices457

Public buyers28

Imports 2024USD 698m
CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026

Goods notices362

Public buyers16

Imports 2024USD 1.7bn
FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices45

Public buyers43

Imports 2024USD 1.5bn
PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices28

Public buyers17

Imports 2024USD 1.7bn
GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices23

Public buyers19

Imports 2024USD 3.0bn
SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices22

Public buyers16

Imports 2024USD 977m
Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices18

Public buyers7

Imports 2024USD 765m
RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices17

Public buyers9

Imports 2024USD 496m
BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices13

Public buyers7

Imports 2024USD 532m
SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices10

Public buyers9

Imports 2024USD 405m
DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices8

Public buyers7

Imports 2024USD 265m
LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices8

Public buyers5

Imports 2024USD 217m
NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices8

Public buyers7

Imports 2024USD 799m
SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices8

Public buyers5

Imports 2024USD 362m
GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices6

Public buyers4

Imports 2024USD 149m
HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices5

Public buyers5

Imports 2024USD 380m
ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices5

Public buyers5

Imports 2024USD 1.0bn
United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026

Goods notices5

Public buyers4

Imports 2024USD 1.6bn
FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices4

Public buyers2

Imports 2024USD 116m
IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices4

Public buyers4

Imports 2024USD 190m
SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices4

Public buyers3

Imports 2024USD 101m
AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices3

Public buyers2

Imports 2024USD 638m
BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices3

Public buyers3

Imports 2024USD 120m
NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices3

Public buyers3

Imports 2024USD 135m
PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices3

Public buyers3

Imports 2024USD 296m
CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices2

Public buyers2

Imports 2024USD 117m
EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices2

Public buyers2

Imports 2024USD 66m
LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices2

Public buyers2

Imports 2024USD 51m
MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices2

Public buyers2

Imports 2024USD 11m
SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026

Goods notices1

Public buyers1

Imports 2024USD 614m

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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