The Buyer Book · customs heading 8704

Who buys goods vehicles in the public sector.

1,504 public bodies issued 5,374 notices for goods in this family across 33 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 135bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.

1,504public buyers, named in the book
5,374goods notices in the family
33countries with at least one notice
USD 135bnimported 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 notices931
    Public buyers30
    Imports 2024USD 19bn
  2. United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices921
    Public buyers34
    Imports 2024USD 42bn
  3. AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices548
    Public buyers16
    Imports 2024USD 10bn
  4. GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices350
    Public buyers191
    Imports 2024USD 9.9bn
  5. SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices276
    Public buyers125
    Imports 2024USD 3.8bn
  6. United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026
    Goods notices268
    Public buyers101
    Imports 2024USD 9.8bn
  7. FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices253
    Public buyers56
    Imports 2024USD 848m
  8. FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices176
    Public buyers152
    Imports 2024USD 6.1bn
  9. BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices165
    Public buyers63
    Imports 2024USD 388m
  10. PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices165
    Public buyers85
    Imports 2024USD 2.7bn
  11. Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices138
    Public buyers59
    Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
  12. EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices138
    Public buyers20
    Imports 2024USD 352m
  13. SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices111
    Public buyers67
    Imports 2024USD 1.5bn
  14. CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices85
    Public buyers15
    Imports 2024USD 414m
  15. LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices79
    Public buyers41
    Imports 2024USD 114m
  16. PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices79
    Public buyers44
    Imports 2024USD 977m
  17. RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices72
    Public buyers35
    Imports 2024USD 984m
  18. HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices68
    Public buyers47
    Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
  19. ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices68
    Public buyers44
    Imports 2024USD 4.0bn
  20. LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices68
    Public buyers25
    Imports 2024USD 438m
  21. SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices62
    Public buyers23
    Imports 2024USD 424m
  22. NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices49
    Public buyers41
    Imports 2024USD 3.8bn
  23. GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices46
    Public buyers26
    Imports 2024USD 383m
  24. BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices40
    Public buyers33
    Imports 2024USD 5.1bn
  25. SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices39
    Public buyers23
    Imports 2024USD 1.5bn
  26. IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices37
    Public buyers25
    Imports 2024USD 836m
  27. NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices35
    Public buyers24
    Imports 2024USD 1.6bn
  28. SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices25
    Public buyers20
    Imports 2024USD 2.0bn
  29. DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices23
    Public buyers15
    Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
  30. AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices22
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
  31. MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices16
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 53m
  32. CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices14
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 100m
  33. LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 182m
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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