| Line | Millions of dollars | |
| 1 | 1995 level | 1,365,470 |
| 2 | 101,529 | |
| 3 | 613 | |
| 4 | 82,213 | |
| 5 | -133 | |
| 6 | 18,836 | |
| 7 | 1996 level | 1,466,999 |
1. Parents that established or acquired their first foreign affiliate in 1996.
2. In addition to changes in existing operations, includes changes resulting from parents acquiring, establishing, selling, or liquidating parts of their consolidated operations. BEA generally requires survey respondents to fully consolidate their parent operations.
3. Parents that sold or liquidated their last foreign affiliate in 1996.
4. Equals the change in the gross product of parents not accounted for in lines 3-5. It includes changes resulting from the addition to the survey universe of parents that were required to report in earlier years but did not.