{"title":"Specialist agricultural or forestry machinery market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/166-specialist-agricultural-or-forestry-machinery","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"166","label":"Specialist agricultural or forestry machinery"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 215 supply contracts for specialist agricultural or forestry machinery through award notices on TED; the 166 of them that state a value (77.2%) add up to €55.5 million. EU countries together imported €3.33 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to specialist agricultural or forestry machinery in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8436; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 11.7% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 336 companies have won 613 public supply contracts for specialist agricultural or forestry machinery in 30 European countries, in 377 award notices from 227 public buyers.","2.4% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Austria.","The five companies that win most often hold 10.3% of all awards across Europe.","37% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":613,"awardNotices":377,"winningCompanies":336,"publicBuyers":227,"awardsWithValue":465,"awardedValueEur":140154442,"localAwards":598,"foreignAwards":15,"top5Share":0.10277324632952692,"singleBidAwards":213,"awardsWithKnownBids":575,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":11,"awardNotices":4,"awardsWithValue":8,"awardedValueEur":2129087},{"year":2024,"awards":175,"awardNotices":103,"awardsWithValue":132,"awardedValueEur":22995360},{"year":2025,"awards":215,"awardNotices":137,"awardsWithValue":166,"awardedValueEur":55524368},{"year":2026,"awards":212,"awardNotices":133,"awardsWithValue":159,"awardedValueEur":59505627}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8436","label":"Agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry-keeping or bee-keeping machinery, incl. germination plant fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":2983467691},{"year":2024,"valueEur":2993914591},{"year":2025,"valueEur":3332798888}]},"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, \"Specialist agricultural or forestry machinery market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/166-specialist-agricultural-or-forestry-machinery, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}