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U.S. Direct Investment Income from LAC

millions of U.S. dollars

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

Antigua & Barbuda

1

1

1

1

1

1

*

*

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Aruba

..

..

..

..

..

1

1

*

*

*

*

9

44

*

*

Bahamas

1,162

1,126

1,028

985

867

225

308

63

438

306

756

33

336

45

181

Barbados

5

13

16

36

10

42

81

123

163

239

299

303

306

425

511

Belize

-8

*

-6

-6

-6

-2

*

*

*

1

1

1

*

*

3

Bermuda

1,395

1,342

1,507

1,311

1,579

1,702

2,214

2,652

2,067

2,016

2,090

3,040

3,243

2,728

3,305

Cuba

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

-3

-5

*

*

Dominica

0

0

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

2

2

Dominican Republic

15

30

29

25

12

25

23

147

162

171

216

235

90

115

118

French Guiana

1

5

2

*

3

5

*

1

2

2

2

1

1

1

1

French Islands, Caribbean

-2

*

*

1

4

5

5

8

12

13

13

13

14

9

8

Grenada

..

..

..

..

..

..

..

*

*

*

*

1

*

1

*

Guyana

*

1

1

-1

*

*

*

*

-2

5

11

7

15

*

*

Haiti

6

8

6

8

7

6

6

5

4

1

3

5

3

9

7

Jamaica

31

5

11

9

31

70

129

254

170

132

125

22

105

76

50

Netherlands Antilles

(1,800)

(3,189)

(3,306)

(3,134)

(2,708)

(2,176)

(1,908)

(1,309)

-932

-888

-417

-387

58

32

-54

St. Kitts & Nevis

0

*

0

0

0

*

*

*

-1

*

*

*

*

*

*

St. Lucia

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

7

8

3

4

6

6

4

*

St. Vincent & Grenadines

0

0

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

*

1

1

1

1

1

Suriname

3

11

9

*

1

18

*

*

*

35

14

23

28

*

*

Trinidad & Tobago

83

72

62

212

78

49

57

75

105

130

161

66

62

156

283

UK Islands, Caribbean

1,214

1,107

949

890

714

479

1,045

701

789

1,073

946

499

775

1,084

697

Caribbean

2,106

532

309

337

593

450

1,961

2,727

2,986

3,240

4,226

3,876

5,083

4,689

5,114

Costa Rica

10

18

14

2

13

30

24

30

41

27

211

150

269

332

297

El Salvador

5

16

15

16

11

11

9

16

15

21

23

33

35

34

41

Guatemala

8

22

16

-7

6

4

27

15

21

8

22

30

38

41

59

Honduras

-9

7

-7

13

20

48

39

22

-8

-7

-31

4

12

21

-2

Nicaragua

-14

*

-4

-4

14

40

9

-5

*

-6

8

6

6

1

-3

Panama

566

855

664

607

990

898

718

929

1,075

955

909

833

1,020

1,397

1,281

Central America

566

918

698

627

1,054

1,031

826

1,007

1,144

998

1,142

1,056

1,380

1,826

1,673

Argentina

232

435

20

105

435

329

370

43

405

500

518

660

982

947

1,064

Bolivia

30

25

10

-14

9

-7

-9

10

25

26

13

18

46

42

20

Brazil

932

31

752

925

986

1,311

2,363

3,505

1,427

931

2,325

4,946

4,756

3,515

3,879

Chile

-66

42

36

57

93

130

237

303

337

321

359

256

676

1,024

870

Colombia

220

169

189

238

183

106

182

82

342

374

457

314

324

476

589

Ecuador

58

47

88

83

84

37

4

26

29

30

9

12

40

100

91

Paraguay

-15

-12

-3

-2

-7

-16

-2

-6

3

3

4

6

7

13

21

Peru

229

115

88

-57

-12

-48

-106

-131

-122

-17

30

17

121

366

372

Uruguay

-15

-10

-22

-11

17

7

22

*

*

37

36

49

64

80

68

Venezuela

329

-157

133

61

232

209

283

111

152

276

487

542

321

625

662

South America

1,934

685

1,291

1,385

2,020

2,058

3,344

3,943

2,598

2,481

4,238

6,820

7,337

7,188

7,636

Mexico

-48

-194

287

370

-75

720

1,290

1,417

1,850

2,267

2,457

2,525

2,497

1,369

2,931

Unallocated

7

59

151

107

7

10

(2)

2

149

50

LAC

4,553

1,877

2,585

2,704

3,595

4,266

7,480

9,245

8,685

8,993

12,073

14,275

16,299

15,221

17,404

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, USDIA: 1994 Benchmark Survey, Final Results, IDN-0189, Washington, DC, 1998.

Definition: U.S. direct-investment income reflects the return on capital provided to foreign affiliates by U.S. parent companies. It comprises U.S. parent companies’ claims on earnings (or profits) of foreign affiliates a nd interest payments on loans from their foreign affiliates. Negative figures could result either from losses by the U.S. parent company or interest obligations to foreign affiliates exceeding interest due plus the share in their affiliates’ net income. S ub-regional groupings: French Islands, Caribbean, consist of Guadeloupe and Martinique. U.K. Islands, Caribbean, consist of Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Notes: The letter "d" signifies that the data have been suppressed to avoid disclosure of data specific to individual companies. The symbol "*" signifies an amount less than $500,000. "Unallocated" is the sum of all suppressed data (i.e. the difference between the LAC total, which includes suppressed figures, and the sum of the four regional totals, which do not include suppressed figures.

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