The Buyer Book · customs heading 8517

Who buys telephones and network equipment in the public sector.

1,384 public bodies issued 7,148 notices for goods in this family across 33 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 305bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.

1,384public buyers, named in the book
7,148goods notices in the family
33countries with at least one notice
USD 305bnimported 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 notices3,484
    Public buyers109
    Imports 2024USD 112bn
  2. CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices902
    Public buyers52
    Imports 2024USD 13bn
  3. AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices609
    Public buyers35
    Imports 2024USD 8.4bn
  4. PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices429
    Public buyers225
    Imports 2024USD 8.2bn
  5. Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices404
    Public buyers150
    Imports 2024USD 14bn
  6. GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices225
    Public buyers170
    Imports 2024USD 27bn
  7. SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices156
    Public buyers87
    Imports 2024USD 7.6bn
  8. United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026
    Goods notices121
    Public buyers69
    Imports 2024USD 16bn
  9. RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices89
    Public buyers46
    Imports 2024USD 2.6bn
  10. LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices74
    Public buyers27
    Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
  11. FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices73
    Public buyers60
    Imports 2024USD 12bn
  12. PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices59
    Public buyers40
    Imports 2024USD 1.6bn
  13. BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices55
    Public buyers26
    Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
  14. HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices49
    Public buyers19
    Imports 2024USD 5.5bn
  15. CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices44
    Public buyers18
    Imports 2024USD 729m
  16. EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices44
    Public buyers18
    Imports 2024USD 866m
  17. ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices43
    Public buyers27
    Imports 2024USD 11bn
  18. SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices39
    Public buyers19
    Imports 2024USD 4.2bn
  19. BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices34
    Public buyers23
    Imports 2024USD 4.2bn
  20. NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices30
    Public buyers25
    Imports 2024USD 24bn
  21. SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices30
    Public buyers26
    Imports 2024USD 6.1bn
  22. AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices28
    Public buyers20
    Imports 2024USD 5.2bn
  23. NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices23
    Public buyers17
    Imports 2024USD 2.3bn
  24. SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices23
    Public buyers9
    Imports 2024USD 697m
  25. SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices20
    Public buyers18
    Imports 2024USD 3.5bn
  26. CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices11
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 260m
  27. FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices10
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 1.7bn
  28. GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices10
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 1.4bn
  29. LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices9
    Public buyers7
    Imports 2024USD 683m
  30. DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices8
    Public buyers7
    Imports 2024USD 2.6bn
  31. IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices8
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 3.4bn
  32. MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 91m
  33. LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 340m
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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