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Table 18.2.—Investment Outlays, Country of Ultimate Beneficial Owner by Industry of U.S. Business Enterprise, 1997

[Millions of dollars]

All industries Petroleum Manufacturing Wholesale trade Retail trade Depository institutions/1/ Finance, except depository institutions/1/ Insurance Real estate Services Other industries
Total Food and kindred products Chemicals and allied products Primary and fabricated metals Machinery Other manufacturing
All countries 70,819 688 19,963 2,119 4,034 1,196 5,178 7,436 2,578 438 3,935 6,536 8,639 3,831 12,407 11,802
Canada 10,764 (/D/) 4,236 (/D/) (/D/) 95 728 1,691 230 0 5 953 (/D/) 1,066 1,332 2,790
Europe 46,190 (/D/) 13,388 1,544 2,630 1,036 3,437 4,742 2,170 373 (/D/) 5,350 (/D/) 1,622 8,340 1,983
Austria (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Belgium 171 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0
Denmark (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Finland (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
France 2,772 0 332 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 122 (/D/) (/D/) 1 (/D/) 0 0 1,991 0
Germany 6,412 0 2,909 0 (/D/) 3 (/D/) 1,573 1,525 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 1,230 297 (/D/)
Ireland (/D/) 0 28 0 0 0 0 28 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0
Italy (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 (*) 0 (/D/) 0 0
Liechtenstein 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0
Luxembourg (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0
Netherlands 11,255 (/D/) 1,035 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 288 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 303 (/D/) (/D/)
Norway (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Spain (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
Sweden 2,601 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) 605 (/D/) 1 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 2
Switzerland 6,351 0 1,747 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 4 58 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 0
United Kingdom 13,355 0 5,555 (/D/) 1,316 (/D/) 1,302 2,013 189 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 28 3,239 (/D/)
Other (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latin America and Other Western Hemisphere 923 (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/)
South and Central America (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 22 (/D/) 1
Brazil (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0
Mexico 13 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) (*) 1
Panama 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Venezuela 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0
Other Western Hemisphere (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/)
Bahamas (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/)
Bermuda (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0
Netherlands Antilles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
U.K. Islands, Caribbean 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Africa (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0
South Africa (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0
Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Middle East 918 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 (*)
Israel 125 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0
Kuwait (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (*)
Lebanon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Saudi Arabia 34 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 0 0
United Arab Emirates (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0
Other (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Asia and Pacific 11,993 0 1,137 (/D/) 123 66 (/D/) 444 (/D/) 65 (/D/) (/D/) 0 584 2,688 6,991
Australia 8,421 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 3 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 5,880
China 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Hong Kong 62 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/)
Indonesia (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japan 1,845 0 804 (/D/) 123 (/D/) 319 306 46 64 0 131 0 (/D/) 387 (/D/)
Korea, Republic of 77 0 22 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/)
Malaysia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
New Zealand 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philippines 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Singapore (/D/) 0 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 2 (/D/)
Taiwan 226 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 1 (/D/) 10 0 4 10 0
Other 70 0 70 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
United States/2/ (/D/) 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/)
Addenda:
European Union (15)/3/ 39,259 (/D/) 11,612 398 2,094 1,006 3,433 4,682 1,896 373 (/D/) 3,297 (/D/) 1,587 7,829 1,981
OPEC/4/ 193 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 167 0 (*)

/*/ Less than $500,000.

D Suppressed to avoid disclosure of data of individual companies.

  1. See footnote 1, table 4.
  2. See footnote 4 in text for explanation.
  3. The European Union (15) comprises Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Prior to 1995, Austria, Finland, and Sweden were not members of the European Union.
  4. OPEC is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Its members are Algeria, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela.

NOTE.—Data for 1997 are preliminary. For investments in which more than one investor participated, each investor and each investor's outlays are classified by the country of each individual ultimate beneficial owner.