New Foreign Direct Investment in the United States, 2023

Expenditures by foreign direct investors to acquire, establish, or expand U.S. businesses totaled $148.8 billion in 2023, down $57.4 billion, or 28 percent, from $206.2 billion in 2022. 

Additional highlights of the statistics on new foreign direct investment for 2023:  

• Expenditures for acquisitions were $136.5 billion, expenditures to establish new U.S. businesses were $7.4 billion, and expenditures to expand existing foreign-owned businesses were $5.0 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 2023, which include both first-year spending and planned spending in future years, totaled $39.5 billion.
   
• Employment at newly acquired, established, or expanded foreign-owned businesses in the United States was 110,000 in 2023.

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