Who buys photographic and darkroom apparatus in the public sector.
151 public bodies issued 251 notices for goods in this family across 28 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 226m 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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United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices62Public buyers25Imports 2024USD 65m
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices35Public buyers21Imports 2024USD 7m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices24Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 3m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices19Public buyers18Imports 2024USD 37m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 823k
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers11Imports 2024USD 17m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 2m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices11Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 8m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 941k
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices8Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 963k
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 3m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 1m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 8m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices4Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 289k
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices4Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 16m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 2m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 2m
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 139k
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 9m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 4m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 2m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 1m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 14m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 3m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 4m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 1m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 8m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 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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