Who buys recording media in the public sector.
1,453 public bodies issued 4,143 notices for goods in this family across 32 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 35bn 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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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices825Public buyers284Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
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United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices506Public buyers43Imports 2024USD 19bn
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices372Public buyers133Imports 2024USD 662m
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices367Public buyers42Imports 2024USD 975m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices296Public buyers87Imports 2024USD 972m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices275Public buyers45Imports 2024USD 178m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices202Public buyers81Imports 2024USD 53m
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices163Public buyers26Imports 2024USD 399m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices141Public buyers96Imports 2024USD 141m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices123Public buyers98Imports 2024USD 2.5bn
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices116Public buyers41Imports 2024USD 56m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices103Public buyers68Imports 2024USD 1.2bn
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices80Public buyers75Imports 2024USD 1.6bn
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices76Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 49m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices60Public buyers30Imports 2024USD 203m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices57Public buyers53Imports 2024USD 1.9bn
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices55Public buyers38Imports 2024USD 567m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices52Public buyers37Imports 2024USD 170m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices45Public buyers17Imports 2024USD 50m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices37Public buyers21Imports 2024USD 90m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices31Public buyers18Imports 2024USD 35m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices25Public buyers24Imports 2024USD 253m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices23Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 658m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices22Public buyers20Imports 2024USD 282m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices16Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 69m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices15Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 251m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 130m
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LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 29m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 92m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices10Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 537m
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 39m
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CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 8m
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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