The Buyer Book · customs heading 8705

Who buys special purpose motor vehicles in the public sector.

4,028 public bodies issued 10,631 notices for goods in this family across 33 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 9.0bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.

4,028public buyers, named in the book
10,631goods notices in the family
33countries with at least one notice
USD 9.0bnimported 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. GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1,732
    Public buyers1,071
    Imports 2024USD 607m
  2. United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1,537
    Public buyers28
    Imports 2024USD 1.7bn
  3. CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1,093
    Public buyers31
    Imports 2024USD 1.4bn
  4. PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices814
    Public buyers483
    Imports 2024USD 357m
  5. AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026
    Goods notices705
    Public buyers18
    Imports 2024USD 580m
  6. SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices581
    Public buyers262
    Imports 2024USD 363m
  7. FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices418
    Public buyers332
    Imports 2024USD 700m
  8. Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices384
    Public buyers164
    Imports 2024USD 112m
  9. FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices291
    Public buyers68
    Imports 2024USD 47m
  10. United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026
    Goods notices291
    Public buyers115
    Imports 2024USD 429m
  11. BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices289
    Public buyers112
    Imports 2024USD 66m
  12. RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices279
    Public buyers165
    Imports 2024USD 178m
  13. ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices214
    Public buyers107
    Imports 2024USD 194m
  14. CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices200
    Public buyers74
    Imports 2024USD 44m
  15. SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices188
    Public buyers111
    Imports 2024USD 152m
  16. PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices171
    Public buyers110
    Imports 2024USD 93m
  17. LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices152
    Public buyers63
    Imports 2024USD 99m
  18. EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices149
    Public buyers25
    Imports 2024USD 31m
  19. SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices148
    Public buyers69
    Imports 2024USD 44m
  20. NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices125
    Public buyers88
    Imports 2024USD 476m
  21. SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices115
    Public buyers72
    Imports 2024USD 50m
  22. LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices109
    Public buyers53
    Imports 2024USD 46m
  23. HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices86
    Public buyers54
    Imports 2024USD 50m
  24. BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices83
    Public buyers68
    Imports 2024USD 273m
  25. NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices77
    Public buyers57
    Imports 2024USD 137m
  26. SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices77
    Public buyers49
    Imports 2024USD 251m
  27. AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices75
    Public buyers42
    Imports 2024USD 235m
  28. GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices65
    Public buyers41
    Imports 2024USD 51m
  29. IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices59
    Public buyers34
    Imports 2024USD 90m
  30. DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices57
    Public buyers32
    Imports 2024USD 64m
  31. CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices28
    Public buyers15
    Imports 2024USD 10m
  32. MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices20
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 11m
  33. LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices19
    Public buyers10
    Imports 2024USD 29m
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.

Want the 4,028 buyers by name?

Leave a work address and the Buyer Book for special purpose motor vehicles comes to you by email, with its terms.

Your address is used to answer about the special purpose motor vehicles Buyer Book, nothing else. Privacy

Every product family with a book: the catalogue.