In the twenty-five years after 1990, US companies would invest roughly $277 billion in Ireland; the comparable figure for Brazil is $92 billion; for Russia $10 billion; for India $32 billion; and for China $51 billion.4 By 2012, Ireland, which was 1 per cent of the EU economy, accounted for 11.5 per cent of sales by US affiliate companies in Europe. By 2017, US direct investment stock in Ireland totalled $457 billion, a greater investment stake than in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and Sweden combined.
