Who buys hydrometers, areometers and similar floating instruments in the public sector.
256 public bodies issued 3,021 notices for goods in this family across 28 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 4.5bn 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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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices1,528Public buyers28Imports 2024USD 214m
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United StatesUSAspending, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices725Public buyers31Imports 2024USD 1.3bn
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices451Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 99m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices47Public buyers18Imports 2024USD 99m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices47Public buyers31Imports 2024USD 864m
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices41Public buyers19Imports 2024USD 164m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices24Public buyers15Imports 2024USD 156m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices19Public buyers16Imports 2024USD 276m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices16Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 8m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices15Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 23m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 24m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices13Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 361m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices12Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 47m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 38m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers8Imports 2024USD 184m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices8Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 11m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 21m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 4m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 63m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 50m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 51m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 16m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 107m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 85m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices2Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 114m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 93m
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 43m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 40m
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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