{"title":"Vehicle bodies, trailers or semi-trailers market in Europe","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/europe/342-vehicle-bodies-trailers-or-semi-trailers","scope":"Europe (30 countries: EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)","category":{"cpvGroup":"342","label":"Vehicle bodies, trailers or semi-trailers"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in 30 European countries awarded 1,175 supply contracts for vehicle bodies, trailers or semi-trailers through award notices on TED; the 845 of them that state a value (71.9%) add up to €654 million. EU countries together imported €16.3 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to vehicle bodies, trailers or semi-trailers in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 8716 and 8707; sum of national imports, trade between EU countries included; all buyers, not only public ones), down 7.6% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 1,261 companies have won 2,835 public supply contracts for vehicle bodies, trailers or semi-trailers in 30 European countries, in 1,426 award notices from 781 public buyers.","3.8% of these awards went to a company registered in a different country from the buyer; the most frequent foreign origin is United Kingdom.","The five companies that win most often hold 4.6% of all awards across Europe.","27.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":2835,"awardNotices":1426,"winningCompanies":1261,"publicBuyers":781,"awardsWithValue":2110,"awardedValueEur":1948446547,"localAwards":2726,"foreignAwards":109,"top5Share":0.04585537918871252,"singleBidAwards":737,"awardsWithKnownBids":2694,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":35,"awardNotices":33,"awardsWithValue":32,"awardedValueEur":59140436},{"year":2024,"awards":755,"awardNotices":443,"awardsWithValue":543,"awardedValueEur":262702238},{"year":2025,"awards":1175,"awardNotices":480,"awardsWithValue":845,"awardedValueEur":653908084},{"year":2026,"awards":870,"awardNotices":470,"awardsWithValue":690,"awardedValueEur":972695790}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"8716","label":"Trailers and semi-trailers"},{"hs4":"8707","label":"Bodies, incl. cabs, for tractors, motor vehicles for the transport of ten or more persons, motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons, motor vehicles for the transport of goods and special purpose motor vehicles of heading 8701 to 8705"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":17604701920},{"year":2024,"valueEur":15430372017},{"year":2025,"valueEur":16261271598}]},"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, \"Vehicle bodies, trailers or semi-trailers market in Europe\", https://cresques.com/markets/europe/342-vehicle-bodies-trailers-or-semi-trailers, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}