Who buys pencils, crayons, pencil leads, pastels, drawing charcoals in the public sector.
1,008 public bodies issued 2,719 notices for goods in this family across 32 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 948m 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 notices914Public buyers39Imports 2024USD 314m
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FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices309Public buyers276Imports 2024USD 66m
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Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices274Public buyers66Imports 2024USD 21m
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BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices188Public buyers69Imports 2024USD 2m
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PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices129Public buyers80Imports 2024USD 41m
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CanadaCanada contracts disclosure, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices113Public buyers2Imports 2024USD 37m
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RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices104Public buyers29Imports 2024USD 9m
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GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices96Public buyers79Imports 2024USD 114m
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CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices85Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 4m
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AustraliaAusTender, 2 Nov 2025 to 1 Nov 2026Goods notices82Public buyers23Imports 2024USD 26m
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SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices70Public buyers51Imports 2024USD 33m
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United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026Goods notices70Public buyers57Imports 2024USD 51m
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ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices55Public buyers51Imports 2024USD 41m
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GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices28Public buyers20Imports 2024USD 14m
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NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices25Public buyers24Imports 2024USD 40m
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SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices21Public buyers7Imports 2024USD 24m
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BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices20Public buyers19Imports 2024USD 16m
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NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices17Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 5m
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AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices14Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 18m
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EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices13Public buyers10Imports 2024USD 2m
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IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices13Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 10m
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SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices13Public buyers12Imports 2024USD 10m
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LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices10Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 2m
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PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices10Public buyers9Imports 2024USD 7m
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MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices9Public buyers4Imports 2024USD 434k
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HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices8Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 8m
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LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 2m
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SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices7Public buyers6Imports 2024USD 4m
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SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices6Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 11m
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FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices5Public buyers5Imports 2024USD 5m
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LuxembourgTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices3Public buyers3Imports 2024USD 1m
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DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026Goods notices1Public buyers1Imports 2024USD 9m
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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