Report Outline
Distribution of New World Investments
Investments in Canada and Mexico
Investments in Cuba, Haiti and Santo Domingo
Investments in Central America
Investments in South America
American foreign investments at the end of 1925, exclusive of Government loans to European nations, totaled $10,405,-000,000. Figures recently compiled by the Department of Commerce disclose that of this total of foreign holdings by American citizens and corporations over two-thirds is represented by investments in the Western Hemisphere.
The following table, based upon the figures of the Department of Commerce1, shows the distribution of American foreign investments by geographical areas at the end of 1925.
| |
Total Investment |
Per Cent of total |
| Canada and Newfoundland |
$2, 825, 000,000 |
27,1 |
| Latin America |
4,210,000,000 |
40.5 |
| |
$7,035,000,000 |
67.6 |
| Europe |
$2,500,000,000 |
24. 0 |
| Asia, Australia, Africa and rest of the world |
870,000,000 |
8.4 |
| |
$3,370,000,000 |
32.4 |
The investment totals given above include government and government-guaranteed obligations, foreign industrial securities and the estimated value of the direct investments made in foreign countries by American citizens and business enterprises. |
|
| American Investment Abroad |
|
 |
Jan. 26, 1968 |
American Investments in European Industry |
|
Jul. 11, 1962 |
Protection of Investments in Backward Countries |
|
Feb. 21, 1962 |
Foreign Competition for American Producers |
|
Jun. 24, 1959 |
American Manufacturing in Foreign Countries |
|
Feb. 25, 1953 |
American Private Investment Abroad |
|
May 11, 1949 |
Government Guaranties for Foreign Investments |
|
Apr. 26, 1932 |
American Manufacturing in Foreign Countries |
|
Feb. 03, 1932 |
Defaulted Foreign Bonds |
|
May 14, 1931 |
Protection of American Lives and Property Abroad |
|
Apr. 01, 1929 |
American Investments in European Industry |
|
May 17, 1926 |
American Investments in the Western Hemisphere |
|
May 14, 1925 |
American Investments in Foreign Countries 1919–1924 |
| | |
|
