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The Buyer Book · customs heading 9619

Who buys sanitary towels (pads) and tampons, napkins and napkin liners in the public sector.

214 public bodies issued 383 notices for goods in this family across 29 countries in the last year of their award records. Those countries imported USD 7.5bn of it in 2024. Here are the counts, country by country. The names are the book.

214public buyers, named in the book
383goods notices in the family
29countries with at least one notice
USD 7.5bnimported 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. Czech RepublicTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices53
    Public buyers21
    Imports 2024USD 337m
  2. CroatiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices47
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 89m
  3. SpainTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices44
    Public buyers27
    Imports 2024USD 388m
  4. GermanyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices36
    Public buyers25
    Imports 2024USD 1.1bn
  5. RomaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices33
    Public buyers12
    Imports 2024USD 218m
  6. PolandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices26
    Public buyers22
    Imports 2024USD 337m
  7. EstoniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices18
    Public buyers7
    Imports 2024USD 27m
  8. LatviaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices18
    Public buyers8
    Imports 2024USD 39m
  9. FranceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices16
    Public buyers16
    Imports 2024USD 781m
  10. NetherlandsTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices12
    Public buyers10
    Imports 2024USD 368m
  11. ItalyTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices8
    Public buyers7
    Imports 2024USD 302m
  12. PortugalTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 208m
  13. SloveniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 44m
  14. SwedenTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices7
    Public buyers7
    Imports 2024USD 194m
  15. AustriaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 474m
  16. BelgiumTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6
    Public buyers6
    Imports 2024USD 560m
  17. BulgariaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6
    Public buyers5
    Imports 2024USD 59m
  18. MaltaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices6
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 12m
  19. FinlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices5
    Public buyers4
    Imports 2024USD 81m
  20. LithuaniaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices5
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 68m
  21. GreeceTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers3
    Imports 2024USD 111m
  22. HungaryTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices4
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 146m
  23. SlovakiaTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices3
    Public buyers2
    Imports 2024USD 107m
  24. CyprusTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 27m
  25. DenmarkTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 92m
  26. IrelandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 109m
  27. NorwayTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 108m
  28. SwitzerlandTED (EU), 3 Nov 2025 to 2 Nov 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 193m
  29. United KingdomContracts Finder, 27 Oct 2025 to 26 Oct 2026
    Goods notices1
    Public buyers1
    Imports 2024USD 934m
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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