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Wednesday, July 12, 2017 Contact: Jeannine Aversa, (301) 278-9003 New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, 2014 2016 Expenditures by foreign direct investors to acquire, establish, or expand U.S. businesses were $373.4 billion in 2016, down $66.2 billion, or 15 percent, from $439.6 billion in 2015. Billions $ 450 New Investment by Foreign Direct Investors by Type, 1994-2016 400 350 300 250 200 Expansions* 150 Establishments 100 Acquisitions 50 0 *Expansions included in 2014 - 2016 only. Bureau of Economic Analysis • Expenditures for acquisitions were $365.7 billion, expenditures to establish new U.S. businesses were $5.6 billion, and expenditures to expand existing foreign-owned businesses were $2.2 billion. • Total greenfield investment expenditures—expenditures to either establish a new U.S. business or to expand an existing foreign-owned U.S. business—for investments initiated in 2016 which include both first-year expenditures and planned spending in other years, totaled $22.0 billion. • Employment at newly acquired, established, or expanded foreign-owned businesses in the United States was 480,800 employees. With this release, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is introducing statistics on planned and actual expenditures for greenfield investments. The new statistics are available on BEA’s website. BEA statistics—including GDP, personal income, the balance of payments, foreign direct investment, the input-output accounts, and economic statistics for states, local areas, and industries—are available at www.bea.gov. E-mail alerts are also available. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
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