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Tuesday, July 2, 2019 Contact: Jeannine Aversa, (301) 278-9003 New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, 2018 Expenditures by foreign direct investors to acquire, establish, or expand U.S. businesses totaled $296.4 billion in 2018, up 8.7 percent from $272.8 billion in 2017. New Foreign Direct Investment Expenditures by Type, 1996-2018 Billions $ 450 400 350 300 250 Expansions* 200 Establishments 150 Acquisitions 100 50 0 *Expansions included in 2014–2018 only. NOTE–Survey not conducted for 2009–2013. U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Additional highlights of the statistics on new foreign direct investment for 2018: • • • Expenditures for acquisitions were $287.3 billion, expenditures to establish new U.S. businesses were $5.3 billion, and expenditures to expand existing foreign-owned businesses were $3.8 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 2018, which include both first-year spending and planned spending in other years, totaled $30.8 billion. Employment at newly acquired, established, or expanded foreign-owned businesses in the United States was 430,600 in 2018. 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 website: www.bea.gov. E-mail alerts are also available. NOTE: The next release in this series will present data for 2019 and will be available July 2020. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
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