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Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Contact: Jeannine Aversa, (301) 278-9003 New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, 2017 Expenditures by foreign direct investors to acquire, establish, or expand U.S. businesses totaled $259.6 billion in 2017, down 32 percent from $379.7 billion in 2016. New Foreign Direct Investment Expenditures by Type, 1995-2017 Billions $ 450 400 350 300 250 200 Expansions* 150 Establishments Acquisitions 100 50 0 *Expansions included in 2014 - 2017 only. U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Additional highlights of the statistics on new foreign direct investment for 2017: • • • Expenditures for acquisitions were $253.2 billion, expenditures to establish new U.S. businesses were $4.1 billion, and expenditures to expand existing foreign-owned businesses were $2.4 billion. Total planned greenfield investment expenditures—expenditures to establish new U.S. businesses and to expand existing foreign-owned U.S. businesses—for investments initiated in 2017, which include both first-year spending and planned spending in other years, totaled $24.8 billion. Employment at newly acquired, established, or expanded foreign-owned businesses in the United States was 554,300 in 2017. BEA statistics—including GDP, personal income, the balance of payments, foreign direct investment, the input-output accounts, and economic data for states, local areas, and industries—are available on the BEA Web site: www.bea.gov. E-mail alerts are also available. NOTE: The next release in this series will present data for 2018 and will be available July 2019. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
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