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CFIUS 2023 Annual Report Showcases High Level of Activity and
Efficiency Across Functions
July 23, 2024

WASHINGTON – The Department of the Treasury, as Chair of the Committee on Foreign
Investment in the United States (CFIUS), today released its Annual Report to Congress for
calendar year 2023.
The Annual Report highlights key indicators of CFIUSʼs activities and provides statistics on
transactions that CFIUS evaluated in 2023.
“2023 was a busy year for CFIUS in reviewing transactions for national security risk,
monitoring compliance with mitigation agreements, expanding the reach of its jurisdiction,
and enforcing against violations of CFIUS legal authorities,” said Assistant Secretary for
Investment Security Paul Rosen. “Last year CFIUS sharpened its review and enforcement
toolkit while doubling down on e iciency and due diligence in reviewing and investigating
covered transactions.”
The report shows that CFIUS is e ectively utilizing its authorities and resources. In recent
years, CFIUS has enhanced its regulations and processes to review a broader scope of
transactions and increased e orts to identify transactions that were not submitted but may
raise national security considerations. In addition, CFIUS has increasingly focused on utilizing
and enhancing its enforcement tools.
Key highlights from 2023 include the following:
The CFIUS caseload remains significant, even with decreased global merger and
acquisition activity in 2023, with a total of 342 notices and declarations of covered
transactions or covered real estate transactions.
In 2023, CFIUS cleared 66 percent of distinct transactions that did not require mitigation
measures in either the 30-day assessment period for a declaration or the initial 45-day
review period for a notice, an increase from 58 percent in 2022.

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CFIUS assessed or imposed four civil monetary penalties for violations of material
provisions of mitigation agreements, double the number of civil monetary penalties that
CFIUS had previously issued during its nearly 50-year history.
CFIUS improved its e iciency and case processing by decreasing withdrawn and refiled
transactions, which restart the CFIUS review period, from 24 percent to 18 percent of
notices (and from 63 to 43 notices as a total number), the first such reduction in five
years.
This yearʼs report reinforces CFIUSʼs commitment to protecting national security consistent
with the United Statesʼ longstanding open investment policy.
The Annual Report is submitted to Congress pursuant to Section 721 of the Defense
Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. § 4565).
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States 2023 Annual Report to Congress
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