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The Buyer Book · customs heading 8479

Who buys machines with individual functions in the public sector.

450 public bodies issued 2,112 notices for goods in this family across 30 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 52bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.

450public buyers, named in the book
2,112goods notices in the family
30countries with at least one notice
USD 52bnimported 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. United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1,180
    Public buyers52
    Imports 2024USD 15bn
  2. CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices237
    Public buyers20
    Imports 2024USD 2.4bn
  3. AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices190
    Public buyers9
    Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
  4. GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices77
    Public buyers49
    Imports 2024USD 6.5bn
  5. PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices55
    Public buyers39
    Imports 2024USD 1.9bn
  6. FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices51
    Public buyers44
    Imports 2024USD 3.2bn
  7. NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices43
    Public buyers38
    Imports 2024USD 1.9bn
  8. SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices35
    Public buyers22
    Imports 2024USD 1.7bn
  9. RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices32
    Public buyers16
    Imports 2024USD 945m
  10. Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices30
    Public buyers20
    Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
  11. BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices27
    Public buyers19
    Imports 2024USD 261m
  12. BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices22
    Public buyers19
    Imports 2024USD 1.2bn
  13. PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices21
    Public buyers15
    Imports 2024USD 446m
  14. SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices14
    Public buyers14
    Imports 2024USD 1.0bn
  15. SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices13
    Public buyers9
    Imports 2024USD 232m
  16. ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices12
    Public buyers11
    Imports 2024USD 1.8bn
  17. FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices10
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 413m
  18. AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers7
    Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
  19. LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 83m
  20. NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 874m
  21. GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 231m
  22. HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 1.2bn
  23. IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 572m
  24. EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices5
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 104m
  25. DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 585m
  26. United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 2.7bn
  27. CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 167m
  28. SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 664m
  29. SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
  30. LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 150m
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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