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Foreign Direct Investment in the United States. Transactions

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Digitized for FRASER<br />

Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis<br />

OVERVIEW OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES-1990<br />

The Office of Trade and <strong>Investment</strong> Analysis (OTLA) identified from public<br />

sources 1,018 foreign direct <strong>in</strong>vestment transactions that occurred dur<strong>in</strong>g 1990.<br />

Values were reported for 476 of <strong>the</strong>se <strong>in</strong>dividual transactions, amount<strong>in</strong>g to<br />

a total of $57.6 billion. Appendices A, B, and C conta<strong>in</strong> list<strong>in</strong>gs of all <strong>the</strong><br />

identified transactions by U.S. <strong>in</strong>dustry, source country, and state location.<br />

The total number of transactions decreased by 8 percent from <strong>the</strong> 1,103<br />

reported for 1989 (Figure 1). In value terms, <strong>the</strong> 1990 total reflected a<br />

decrease of 23 percent from <strong>the</strong> total value of $74.7 billion that was identified<br />

<strong>in</strong> 1989.<br />

Number of <strong>Investment</strong>s<br />

1,400 |-------------------------------------------<br />

Figure 1<br />

TOTAL NUMBER OF<br />

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS

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