US trade and US-bound FDI by country and by language

US total trade with linguistic groups, countries and regions (percent of total trade). Based on U.S. Census Bureau statistics for 2007:

Europe 22.24%
European Union 19.3%
Spanish-speaking countries 16.7%
Chinese 16.7% (China, HK, Taiwan, Singapore)
China 12.4%
Mexico 11.1%
Japanese 6.7%
French 6.2% (Canada: Quebec only)
German 5.84%
Korean 2.63%
Portuguese 1.86%
Eastern Europe 1.8% (Russia included)
Dutch 1.76%
Italian 1.61%
India 1.33%
Russian 1.15%
Thai 1%
Indonesia 0.60%
Swedish 0.58%
Vietnamese 0.40%
Turkish 0.36%
Finnish 0.27%
Polish 0.17%

Foreign Direct Investment

These ten countries represented 88 percent of all foreign direct investment in the United States in 2007:

1 Canada
2 United Kingdom
3 Japan
4 Switzerland
5 France
6 Spain
7 Sweden
8 Netherlands
9 Germany
10 Italy

Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. International Transactions Accounts

U.S. assets in Germany are greater than total U.S. assets in all of South America. The countries with the most assets in the United States are the United Kingdom, followed by Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, France and Switzerland.

Foreign Direct Investment Position in the United States on a Historical-Cost Basis at Year-End 2007 (in millions of U.S. dollars)

All countries 2,093,049
Europe 1,482,978

United Kingdom 410,787
Japan 233,148
Canada 213,224
Netherlands 209,449
Germany 202,648
France 168,576
Switzerland 155,696
Luxembourg 134,310
Latin America 62,955
Australia 49,100
Sweden 31,857
Belgium 19,520
Italy 15,482
OPEC 13,589
Middle East 12,937
Austria 2,512
Africa 1,124

Source: Ibarra, Marilyn, and Jennifer Koncz, Direct Investment Positions for 2007: Country and Industry Detail. Survey of Current Business, July, 2008. p. 35.

Foreign direct investment trends in 2007

Number of deals:

Europe 5,384
Asia-Pacific 3,402
North America 935
Latin America 777
Middle East 486
Africa 380

Total 11,574

Global FDI recipients

Foreign direct investment in 2007 by top 20 countries
Number of projects and US$ billion invested

China 1,171 projects $90.4
USA 783 $46.8
India 676 $52.5
UK 622 $18.7
France 556 $17.1
Germany 432 $22.8
Spain 379 $17.8
Romania 364 $20.2
Russia 361 $45.1
Poland 330 $20.5
UAE 271 $16.1
Vietnam 260 $40.2
Singapore 239 $23.1
Hungary 217 $10
Mexico 206 $15.3
Belgium 206 $25.8
Italy 166 $9.9
Japan 166 $6.8
Malaysia 162 $10
Australia 154 $22.1

Based on Greenfield FDI projects tracked by OCO Global Ltd.

Green Field Investments

"A form of foreign direct investment where a parent company starts a new venture in a foreign country by constructing new operational facilities from the ground up. In addition to building new facilities, most parent companies also create new long-term jobs in the foreign country by hiring new employees."
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Gross National Income by language here