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The Buyer Book · customs heading 9012

Who buys electron microscopes, proton microscopes and diffraction apparatus in the public sector.

398 public bodies issued 1,926 notices for goods in this family across 30 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 1.4bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.

398public buyers, named in the book
1,926goods notices in the family
30countries with at least one notice
USD 1.4bnimported 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 notices1,315
    Public buyers24
    Imports 2024USD 47m
  2. GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices126
    Public buyers79
    Imports 2024USD 194m
  3. PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices82
    Public buyers35
    Imports 2024USD 20m
  4. SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices59
    Public buyers38
    Imports 2024USD 19m
  5. Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices56
    Public buyers27
    Imports 2024USD 154m
  6. ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices38
    Public buyers31
    Imports 2024USD 46m
  7. AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices33
    Public buyers16
    Imports 2024USD 31m
  8. FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices33
    Public buyers28
    Imports 2024USD 71m
  9. NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices24
    Public buyers10
    Imports 2024USD 596m
  10. PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices19
    Public buyers15
    Imports 2024USD 12m
  11. RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices17
    Public buyers12
    Imports 2024USD 8m
  12. SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices14
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 16m
  13. United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026
    Goods notices12
    Public buyers9
    Imports 2024USD 96m
  14. BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices10
    Public buyers9
    Imports 2024USD 2m
  15. LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices10
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 692k
  16. NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices9
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 5m
  17. BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices8
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 23m
  18. CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices8
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 562k
  19. LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices8
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 958k
  20. HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 6m
  21. SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 26m
  22. FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 10m
  23. SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices5
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 4m
  24. DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 4m
  25. EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 1m
  26. CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 1m
  27. GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 3m
  28. IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 9m
  29. SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices2
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 800k
  30. LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 785k
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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