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Table 18.2.—Investment Outlays, Country of Ultimate Beneficial Owner by Industry of U.S. Business Enterprise, 1996

[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 80,537 (/D/) 28,976 1,239 4,038 3,193 4,673 15,834 5,092 3,216 2,154 7,709 (/D/) 2,955 15,306 8,942
Canada 10,240 (/D/) 1,019 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 323 240 (/D/) (/D/) 958 0 546 5,149 1,944
Europe 50,402 (/D/) 17,599 770 3,390 2,117 1,816 9,507 4,640 3,075 1,823 1,921 (/D/) 1,674 8,874 4,708
Austria 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Belgium (/D/) 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 5 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0
Denmark 164 0 159 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0
Finland (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
France 6,196 0 3,346 (/D/) 1,288 (/D/) (/D/) 467 6 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 24 152 (/D/)
Germany 13,041 0 2,268 0 708 (/D/) 579 (/D/) 4 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 978 (/D/) (/D/)
Ireland 1,565 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 878 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/)
Italy (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Liechtenstein (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0
Luxembourg 457 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/)
Netherlands 6,633 (/D/) 3,408 112 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 0 317 (/D/) (/D/)
Norway (*) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (*) 0
Spain (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 2 0 (/D/) 0 0
Sweden 666 0 557 0 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 65 30 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 4
Switzerland 4,789 0 886 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 2 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 74 (/D/) 7
United Kingdom 15,473 (/D/) 6,071 (/D/) (/D/) 392 682 4,787 (/D/) 665 (/D/) (/D/) 0 139 2,919 41
Other (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0
Latin America and Other Western Hemisphere 771 (*) 511 (/D/) 0 0 1 (/D/) 1 0 9 7 0 7 (/D/) (/D/)
South and Central America 396 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 1 0 9 4 0 7 5 (/D/)
Brazil 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0
Mexico 388 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 1 0 9 0 0 7 2 (/D/)
Panama 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Venezuela 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other Western Hemisphere 376 (*) (/D/) 0 0 0 1 (/D/) 0 0 0 3 0 0 (/D/) 0
Bahamas (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 (/D/) 0
Bermuda (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Netherlands Antilles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
U. K. Islands, Caribbean (/D/) (*) (/D/) 0 0 0 1 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 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 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0
South Africa (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 476 (/D/) 0
Israel (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0
Kuwait (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0
Lebanon (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Saudi Arabia 337 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 298 (/D/) 0
United Arab Emirates (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 (/D/) 0 0
Other (/D/) 2 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 1 0 0
Asia and Pacific 12,677 (/D/) 6,396 99 34 (/D/) (/D/) 2,728 210 21 (/D/) (/D/) 0 239 1,030 (/D/)
Australia 2,425 0 85 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) (/D/)
China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hong Kong 52 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 47 (*) 0
Indonesia (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0
Japan 9,311 (/D/) 5,544 (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) (/D/) 2,640 195 19 0 (/D/) 0 137 703 (/D/)
Korea, Republic of (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 3 0 0 (/D/) (*) 0 3 0 0
Malaysia (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
New Zealand 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Philippines 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Singapore 58 0 56 0 0 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Taiwan 427 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) (/D/) 0
Other 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
United States/2/ (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 0 (/D/) 1 0
Addenda:
European Union (15)/3/ 44,246 (/D/) 15,749 367 2,874 1,835 1,796 8,876 4,451 3,062 1,823 704 (/D/) 1,593 7,396 (/D/)
OPEC/4/ 537 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (/D/) 0 494 (/D/) 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, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela.

NOTE.—Data for 1996 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.