Europe<\/a> again supplied much of the growth. German firms led individual countries with a $49 billion increase, and Canadian firms followed close behind.<\/p>\n\n\tManufacturing pulled in the most new money, and electrical equipment makers were the standout performers within that category.<\/p>\n
\n\tJapan now sits atop the list of countries investing in America, with a position of $776.3 billion by direct count. But ownership isn\u2019t always so simple, the report\u2019s authors said. When BEA traces an investment back to its ultimate beneficial owner, the picture shifts. Canada climbs to second place. Germany jumps to third. And investment credited to the Netherlands and Luxembourg shrinks considerably once you follow the money past those countries to whoever actually controls it.<\/p>\n
\n\tThat gap reveals that a lot of capital gets routed through low-tax jurisdictions before landing in its true home.<\/p>\n
\n\tManufacturing dominates the inbound side of the ledger, too. It claims 42.8 percent of all foreign direct investment in the U.S., worth $2.51 trillion. Chemical manufacturing alone represents a third of that. Finance and wholesale trade trail well behind. Yet even as the investment position grew, the income foreign companies earned from their American operations slipped. It fell 1.9 percent to $310.1 billion. A modest dip. But a notable one, given how much fresh money poured in during the same year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American companies pushed their overseas holdings and investments to a record $7.14 trillion last year, according to new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[971,3016,25,5],"class_list":["post-10179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-luxembourg","tag-business","tag-business-insights","tag-europe","tag-luxembourg"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@lu\/116959893634740158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}