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Appendix A: Sales and Purchases of Goods and Services Between Americans and Foreigners
Pages 177-186

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From page 177...
... U.S. affiliates of foreign firms located in the United States, (2)
From page 178...
... the diagram the point of the arrowhead > indicates the direction of trade between trading units and the solid and dashed lines represent trade flows between trading units of different national ownership and the same national ownership, respectively. We first consider the sales of goods and services to foreignowned firms, private foreign citizens within and outside of the United States, and foreign governments by U.S.-owned firms, U.S.
From page 179...
... citizens located abroad to U.S. affiliates of foreign firms and foreign citizens in the United States and to foreign-owned firms, foreign governments, and foreign private citizens located abroad, namely, 5,1, 5,4, 5,6, 5,7, 8,1, 8,4, 8,6, and 8,7.
From page 180...
... citizens in the United States from foreign firms, foreign governments, and foreign citizens outside of the United States, namely 6>2, 7>2, 6>3, and 7>3; (E) purchases of goods and services by U.S.-owned firms, the U.S.
From page 181...
... firms by U.S. affiliates of foreign firms in the United States and incorrectly includes purchases from unrelated foreign affiliates of U.S.
From page 182...
... Affiliates of Foreign Firms - Purchases within the United States by foreign affiliates - Imported goods and services - Purchases from other U.S. affiliates of foreign firms + Inventory changes Total Local content of U.S.
From page 183...
... to give a total purchases estimate of 76,015. Imports of services from the United States il2,379)
From page 184...
... when the cross-borcler trade of U.S. affiliates of foreign firms in the United States and the cross-border trade of foreign affiliates of U.S.
From page 185...
... affiliates of foreign firms in the United States, and the $680 billion figure incorrectly includes the sales of U.S. affiliates of foreign firms to other affiliated and unaffiliated foreign-owned companies in the United States.
From page 186...
... Part III contains estimates of the Prague added to the gross domestic product of foreign countries by foreign affiliates of U.S. firms abroad and the foreign content of the sales of these firms.


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