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Table 7.1.—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 Finance, except depository institutions Insurance Real estate Services Other industries
Total Food and kindred products Chemicals and allied products Primary and fabricated metals Machinery Other manufacturing
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16)
All countries 69,708 762 19,603 1,949 4,539 1,327 4,788 7,000 2,612 435 3,547 7,019 8,526 4,119 12,187 10,898
Canada 11,755 (/D/) 3,859 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 542 1,551 495 0 5 964 (/D/) 963 1,296 3,950
Europe 44,014 653 13,237 1,390 3,132 1,050 3,237 4,428 1,927 (/D/) (/D/) 5,348 8,380 2,075 8,033 601
Austria (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Belgium 211 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 113 0
Denmark 149 0 146 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 2,578 0 443 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 183 (/D/) (/D/) 1 (/D/) 0 0 1,806 (/D/)
Germany 6,464 0 3,402 0 (/D/) 3 (/D/) 1,355 1,369 1 0 (/D/) (/D/) 916 362 (/D/)
Ireland 1,740 0 84 (/D/) 0 4 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/)
Italy (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 2 0 3 0 31 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 10,244 107 969 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 272 64 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 208 (/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 2,712 (/D/) 712 0 (/D/) (/D/) 567 (/D/) 1 0 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 2
Switzerland 6,745 0 1,572 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 4 60 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 0
United Kingdom 11,834 0 5,062 (/D/) 1,176 (/D/) 1,194 1,844 188 256 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 155 3,221 (/D/)
Other (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latin America and Other Western Hemisphere 924 (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 4 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/)
South and Central America 166 (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 4 0 0 0 24 (/D/) (/D/)
Brazil (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0
Mexico 72 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 4 0 0 0 (/D/) (*) (/D/)
Panama (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0
Venezuela 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other 41 (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0
Other Western Hemisphere 758 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/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 (/D/) (/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 109 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 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 (/D/) (/D/) 4 0 0
South Africa 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 4 0 0
Other (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0
Middle East 847 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) (*)
Israel 132 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0
Kuwait 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 (*)
Lebanon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Saudi Arabia 55 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 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 (/D/) 0 0
Asia and Pacific 11,786 0 1,425 (/D/) 261 (/D/) (/D/) 520 181 (/D/) (/D/) 282 0 682 2,746 6,255
Australia 7,600 0 250 (/D/) (/D/) 3 0 177 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 5,250
China 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
Hong Kong 280 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 0 5 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/)
Indonesia (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Japan 2,326 0 924 (/D/) 158 (/D/) 376 310 60 (/D/) 0 181 0 376 584 (/D/)
Korea, Republic of 77 0 22 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 (*) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/)
Malaysia 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 (*) 0 1
New Zealand 9 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 0 0
Philippines 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Singapore (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 5 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 2 (/D/)
Taiwan 332 0 119 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 1 (/D/) (/D/) 0 4 10 0
Other 70 0 70 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
United States/1/ (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/)
Addenda:
European Union (15)/2/ 36,747 166 11,636 367 2,650 1,020 3,233 4,366 1,682 (/D/) (/D/) 3,081 6,706 1,544 7,572 600
OPEC/3/ 499 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 117 0 (*)

* Less than $500,000.

D Suppressed to avoid disclosure of data of individual companies.

  1. See footnote 4 in text for explanation.
  2. 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.
  3. 3/A> 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 revised. 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.

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