New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, 2017
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 (preliminary) in 2017. Expenditures were down 32 percent from $379.7 billion (revised) in 2016 and were below the annual average of $359.9 billion for 2014-2016. As in previous years, acquisitions of existing businesses accounted for a large majority of total expenditures. Full Text Published July 11, 2018 at 05:30PM Read more at bea.gov