Who buys primary cells and primary batteries, electrical in the public sector.
194 public bodies issued 799 notices for goods in this family across 30 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 5.2bn 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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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices232Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 125m
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United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices199Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices112Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 247m
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices44Public buyers35Imports 2024USD 336m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices35Public buyers15Imports 2024USD 138m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices28Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 101m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices23Public buyers19Imports 2024USD 675m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices18Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 47m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 327m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices10Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 13m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 320m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 170m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 289m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 18m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 38m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 38m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 43m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 18m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 203m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 10m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 14m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 104m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 134m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 14m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 76m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 132m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 73m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 142m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 42m
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 2m
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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