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Table 18.1.—Investment Outlays, Country of Ultimate Beneficial Owner by Industry of U.S. Business Enterprise, 1995

[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
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16)
All countries 57,195 1,520 26,643 3,802 12,511 547 4,489 5,293 1,168 2,838 2,301 7,837 654 2,996 5,881 5,359
Canada 8,029 (/D/) 1,492 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 507 195 (/D/) 0 757 (/D/) 287 554 3,679
Europe 38,195 (/D/) 21,816 3,591 11,530 243 2,258 4,194 759 1,673 (/D/) 6,244 640 1,183 3,899 847
Austria 11 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0
Belgium 352 0 20 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 18 (/D/)
Denmark 133 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0
Finland 6 0 6 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
France 1,129 (/D/) 581 (/D/) 31 (/D/) 82 448 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 0 2 (/D/) (/D/)
Germany 13,117 0 9,162 (/D/) 8,377 (/D/) 416 319 (/D/) 4 0 (/D/) 0 608 166 (/D/)
Ireland 113 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 2 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/)
Italy (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0
Liechtenstein 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Luxembourg (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 3
Netherlands 1,061 2 389 (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) 37 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) 285 22 (/D/)
Norway 14 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 (/D/)
Spain 136 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/)
Sweden 3,323 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 1 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0
Switzerland 7,533 (*) 2,055 (/D/) (/D/) 0 139 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 2,130 (/D/) 142 2,898 (*)
United Kingdom 9,094 (/D/) 5,785 (/D/) 240 127 (/D/) 1,686 115 150 (/D/) 797 0 123 688 463
Other 5 0 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (*)
Latin America and Other Western Hemisphere 1,550 (/D/) 147 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 15 49 (/D/) 59 0 73 (/D/) (/D/)
South and Central America 1,283 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 15 (/D/) (/D/) 59 0 (/D/) 6 (/D/)
Brazil 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 2
Mexico 457 0 24 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 10 2 (/D/) (/D/) 0 1 (/D/) (/D/)
Panama (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 2 0
Venezuela 54 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0
Other (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 (/D/)
Other Western Hemisphere 267 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 1
Bahamas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bermuda 124 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0
Netherlands Antilles (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
U. K. Islands, Caribbean (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 1
Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Africa (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
South Africa (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Other 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Middle East 447 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (*) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 219 (/D/) (/D/)
Israel 90 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (*) 0 0 (/D/) 0 3 0 0
Kuwait 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 5 0
Lebanon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Saudi Arabia 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 8 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0
United Arab Emirates (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0
Other (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 (/D/)
Asia and Pacific 8,688 (/D/) 2,916 (/D/) 238 (/D/) 1,998 481 197 (/D/) (/D/) 719 0 1,233 1,216 457
Australia 2,270 0 285 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 1 0 1 6 (/D/)
China (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 (*) 0 0 5 0
Hong Kong 518 0 18 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) 1 (/D/) 0 54 (/D/) (/D/)
Indonesia 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 12 0 0
Japan 3,602 (/D/) 1,191 (/D/) 96 (/D/) 831 183 142 19 (/D/) 545 0 609 998 22
Korea, Republic of 1,119 0 1,074 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 1 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 2 4 0
Malaysia 57 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 (/D/) 0
New Zealand (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (*) 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 5 0
Philippines 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
Singapore 652 0 4 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/)
Taiwan 261 0 210 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) 1 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 1 1
Other 117 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 4
United States/2/ (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 3 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 (*) (/D/)
Addenda:
European Union (15)/3/ 27,302 (/D/) 16,525 3,470 8,816 178 1,514 2,547 747 1,673 598 4,002 (/D/) 1,035 998 846
OPEC/4/ 451 (/D/) 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 24 0 (/D/) 0 233 (/D/) (/D/)

* 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, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela.

NOTE.—Data for 1995 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.