{"title":"Basic metals market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/147-basic-metals","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"147","label":"Basic metals"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 72 supply contracts for basic metals through award notices on TED; the 32 of them that state a value (44.4%) add up to €61.1 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. EU countries together imported €72.6 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to basic metals in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 7601, 7403, 7502, 7901, 7402 and 15 more headings; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 1.4% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 168 companies have won 246 public supply contracts for basic metals in 30 European countries, in 160 award notices from 110 public buyers.","9.3% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Germany.","The five companies that win most often hold 12.2% of all awards across Europe.","37.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":246,"awardNotices":160,"winningCompanies":168,"publicBuyers":110,"awardsWithValue":144,"awardedValueEur":107858570,"localAwards":223,"foreignAwards":23,"top5Share":0.12195121951219512,"singleBidAwards":79,"awardsWithKnownBids":211,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":6,"awardNotices":3,"awardsWithValue":6,"awardedValueEur":551812},{"year":2024,"awards":78,"awardNotices":51,"awardsWithValue":43,"awardedValueEur":17645267},{"year":2025,"awards":72,"awardNotices":43,"awardsWithValue":32,"awardedValueEur":61123172},{"year":2026,"awards":90,"awardNotices":63,"awardsWithValue":63,"awardedValueEur":28538320}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"7601","label":"Unwrought aluminium"},{"hs4":"7403","label":"Copper, refined, and copper alloys, unwrought (excl. copper alloys of heading 7405)"},{"hs4":"7502","label":"Unwrought nickel"},{"hs4":"7901","label":"Unwrought zinc :"},{"hs4":"7402","label":"Copper, unrefined"},{"hs4":"8108","label":"Titanium and articles thereof, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"7801","label":"Unwrought lead :"},{"hs4":"8001","label":"Unwrought tin"},{"hs4":"7201","label":"Pig iron and spiegeleisen, in pigs, blocks or other primary forms"},{"hs4":"8104","label":"Magnesium and articles thereof, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"8105","label":"Cobalt mattes and other intermediate products of cobalt metallurgy"},{"hs4":"8101","label":"Tungsten \"wolfram\" and articles thereof, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"8112","label":"Beryllium, chromium, germanium, vanadium, gallium, hafnium \"celtium\", indium, niobium \"columbium\", rhenium and thallium, and articles of these metals, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"8102","label":"Molybdenum and articles thereof, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"8111","label":"Manganese and articles thereof, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"2805","label":"Alkali or alkaline-earth metals"},{"hs4":"7206","label":"Iron and non-alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms (excl. remelting scrap ingots, products obtained by continuous casting and iron of heading 7203)"},{"hs4":"8109","label":"Zirconium and articles thereof, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"8103","label":"Tantalum and articles thereof, n.e.s."},{"hs4":"8107","label":"Cadmium and articles thereof, n.e.s."}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":71564692374},{"year":2024,"valueEur":71987945523},{"year":2025,"valueEur":72567286688}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in the EU-27 — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €2.93 trillion in 2025, 15.5% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":2926602000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":31.3,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Basic metals market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/147-basic-metals, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}