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The Buyer Book · customs heading 8459

Who buys machine tools, for drilling, boring, milling, threading or tapping in the public sector.

147 public bodies issued 275 notices for goods in this family across 28 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 1.5bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.

147public buyers, named in the book
275goods notices in the family
28countries with at least one notice
USD 1.5bnimported 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.

  1. CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices53
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 109m
  2. United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices45
    Public buyers10
    Imports 2024USD 410m
  3. GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices34
    Public buyers25
    Imports 2024USD 202m
  4. FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices29
    Public buyers25
    Imports 2024USD 100m
  5. PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices14
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 23m
  6. Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices12
    Public buyers11
    Imports 2024USD 30m
  7. SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices11
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 22m
  8. RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices10
    Public buyers7
    Imports 2024USD 23m
  9. CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices8
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 14m
  10. HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 35m
  11. IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 11m
  12. BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 28m
  13. FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices5
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 15m
  14. SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices5
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 39m
  15. BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 15m
  16. ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 75m
  17. United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 94m
  18. PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 54m
  19. LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 2m
  20. LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 4m
  21. NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 20m
  22. SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 26m
  23. CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 663k
  24. DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 22m
  25. EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 7m
  26. NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 55m
  27. SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 12m
  28. SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 50m
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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