{"title":"Furs and articles of fur market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/186-furs-and-articles-of-fur","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"186","label":"Furs and articles of fur"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 15 supply contracts for furs and articles of fur through award notices on TED; the 3 of them that state a value (20%) add up to €117,334, a floor rather than the full contract value. EU countries together imported €761 million of goods in the customs headings matched to furs and articles of fur in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 4303, 4301, 4302 and 4304; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), up 6.2% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 6 companies have won 18 public supply contracts for furs and articles of fur in 30 European countries, in 7 award notices from 5 public buyers.","5.6% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is Finland.","The five companies that win most often hold 94.4% of all awards across Europe.","5.6% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":18,"awardNotices":7,"winningCompanies":6,"publicBuyers":5,"awardsWithValue":6,"awardedValueEur":265777,"localAwards":17,"foreignAwards":1,"top5Share":0.9444444444444444,"singleBidAwards":1,"awardsWithKnownBids":18,"byYear":[{"year":2024,"awards":1,"awardNotices":1,"awardsWithValue":1,"awardedValueEur":5836},{"year":2025,"awards":15,"awardNotices":4,"awardsWithValue":3,"awardedValueEur":117334},{"year":2026,"awards":2,"awardNotices":2,"awardsWithValue":2,"awardedValueEur":142607}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"4303","label":"Articles of apparel, clothing accessories and other furskin articles (excl. gloves made of leather and furskin, footware and headgear and parts thereof, and goods of chapter 95, e.g., toys, games and sports equipment)"},{"hs4":"4301","label":"Raw furskins, incl. heads, tails, paws and other pieces or cuttings suitable for use in furriery (excl. raw hides and skins of heading 4101, 4102 or 4103)"},{"hs4":"4302","label":"Tanned or dressed furskins, incl. heads, tails, paws and other pieces, scraps and remnants, unassembled, or assembled, without the addition of other materials (excl. clothing, clothing accessories and other furskin articles)"},{"hs4":"4304","label":"Artificial fur and articles thereof (excl. gloves made of leather and artificial fur, footware and headgear and parts thereof, and goods of chapter 95, e.g. toys, games and sports equipment)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":716146005},{"year":2024,"valueEur":736319190},{"year":2025,"valueEur":760671304}]},"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, \"Furs and articles of fur market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/186-furs-and-articles-of-fur, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}