U.S. Multinational Companies--Selected Characteristics statistics

[Preliminary. In billions of dollars (7,821.0 represents $7,821,000,000) except as indicated. Consists of non-bank U.S. parent companies and their non-bank foreign affiliates. U.S. parent is a U.S. person that owns or controls directly or indirectly, 10 percent or more of the voting securities of an incorporated foreign business enterprise, or an equivalent interest in an unincorporated foreign business enterprise. A U.S. person can be an incorporated business enterprise. A foreign affiliate is a foreign business enterprise owned or controlled by a U.S. parent company]


	1996					1996				1996

		U.S. parents					Foreign affiliates
					-
									U.S.	U.S.
Industry \1									exports	imports
									shipped	shipped
									to	from
			Employ-	Employee			Employ-	Employee	foreign	foreign
	Total		ment	compen-	Total		ment	compen-	affili-	affili-
	assets	Sales	(1,000)	sation	assets	Sales	(1,000)	sation	ates	ates

All industries	7,821.0	4,479.0	18,790.0	846.8	3,091.9	2,233.7	7,544.1	252.6	194.0	164.8

Petroleum	553.3	428.1	475.1	31.2	293.1	379.5	232.9	12.1	3.2	13.1
Manufacturing	2,609.4	2,119.7	8,959.9	465.5	862.7	1,048.8	4,392.6	142.0	125.1	137.1
Food and kindred products	217.5	223.3	982.3	33.1	112.7	123.0	563.6	14.2	3.1	2.9
Chemicals and allied products	475.2	326.8	1,022.2	66.5	212.6	199.1	614.1	25.4	14.3	7.7
Primary and fabricated metals	115.3	115.0	560.9	25.3	46.0	43.3	245.1	7.9	2.9	3.6
Industrial machinery and equip-^href="#n">ⁿ^href="#n">ⁿ^href="#n">ⁿment	289.4	270.0	1,164.6	63.6	112.6	169.9	542.9	22.3	20.0	29.6
Electronic and electric equip-^href="#n">ⁿ^href="#n">ⁿ^href="#n">ⁿment	399.1	281.9	1,181.2	59.0	77.5	102.5	713.5	14.3	20.1	22.1
Transportation equipment	615.4	489.1	1,683.3	111.3	131.2	231.8	705.4	26.4	49.4	57.7
Other manufacturing	497.6	413.6	2,365.4	106.7	170.1	179.2	1,008.0	31.5	15.3	13.5
Wholesale trade	179.3	349.0	681.9	26.8	210.9	391.4	558.1	27.1	60.2	12.1
Finance (except depository institutions),
insurance, real estate	3,096.2	517.3	1,069.6	72.9	1,334.7	118.2	193.0	10.6	0.3	0.1
Services	291.3	220.1	2,421.8	80.2	131.6	114.9	837.7	32.0	2.2	0.3
Other industries	1,091.5	844.7	5,181.6	170.2	258.9	180.9	1,329.7	28.9	3.5	2.2


	1997					1997				1997

		U.S. parents					Foreign affiliates

									U.S.	U.S.
Industry ¹									exports	imports
									shipped	shipped
									to	from
			Employ-	Employee			Employ-	Employee	foreign	foreign
	Total		ment	compen-	Total		ment	compen-	affili-	affili-
	assets	Sales	(1,000)	sation	assets	Sales	(1,000)	sation	ates	ates

All industries	8,567.3	4,859.6	19,867.4	894.8	3,397.3	2,356.4	8,018.0	261.2	215.8	178.7

Petroleum	459.9	412.8	483.2	30.9	295.3	360.5	226.1	11.4	5.0	13.4
	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Manufacturing	2,695.2	2,233.1	8,622.7	464.2	884.1	1,086.1	4,592.9	142.4	138.6	150.2
Food and kindred products	223.6	226.9	732.8	29.8	112.9	127.7	598.0	14.1	3.0	3.6
Chemicals and allied products	479.9	331.1	966.8	67.2	220.9	208.0	622.4	24.9	16.7	10.7
Primary and fabricated metals	129.3	126.9	611.4	26.9	47.2	44.7	244.7	7.7	2.9	3.9
Industrial machinery and equipnment	293.5	296.2	1,103.8	59.9	123.3	178.3	634.1	25.0	20.9	30.0
Electronic and electric equipment	438.1	307.5	1,175.1	60.3	84.5	110.6	774.5	15.0	22.6	25.0
Transportation equipment	640.2	524.9	1,657.6	108.9	131.6	244.2	724.2	26.4	56.9	61.6
Other	490.6	419.6	2,375.2	111.2	163.8	172.7	995.0	29.4	15.7	15.4
Wholesale trade	217.0	396.2	756.9	32.6	223.5	422.3	588.0	27.1	65.4	12.7
Finance (except depository institutions),
insurance, real estate	3,514.5	552.9	1,052.1	79.8	1,498.1	135.3	218.8	12.6	0.3	0.1
Services	335.1	249.3	3,024.3	90.2	154.2	128.6	988.9	35.7	2.4	0.3
Other industries	1,345.6	1,015.2	5,928.3	197.1	342.0	223.6	1,403.3	32.1	4.3	2.1

Z Less than $500 million.
1 Represents industry of U.S. parent or industry of foreign affiliate.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Survey of Current Business, July 1999.

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