Table 4-24
Selected data for U.S. multinational corporation parent companies and their MOFAs: 2000
 
  Gross product    Sales    R&D spending    Employees
Parent companies
and MOFAs		 Billions of
current dollars		 Percent
distribution		   Billions of
current dollars		 Percent
distribution		   Billions of
current dollars		 Percent
distribution		   Millions Percent
distribution
Total 2,695.3 100   9,033.9 100   151.3 100   31.2 100
U.S. parents 2,089.4 78   6,547.1 72   131.6 87   23.2 74
MOFAs 605.9 22   2,486.9 28   19.8 13   8.1 26
 
MOFA majority-owned foreign affiliate of U.S. parent company

NOTES: Details may not sum to totals because of rounding. MOFAs are affiliates in which combined ownership of all U.S. parents is more than 50 percent.

SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad, annual series, http://www.bea.gov/bea/di/di1usdop.htm.
 
Science & Engineering Indicators – 2004
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