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DE FRANCE
AUX ÉTATS-UNIS
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Égalité
Fraternité

France &
THE UNITED
STATES
2020 ECONOMIC REPORT

A relationship driving job

creation, growth and innovation
from sea to shining sea
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AMBASSADE
DE FRANCE
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Liberté
Égalité
Fraternité

A DEEP AND MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL RELATIONSHIP

Davey Bickford, Sephora,

ELI Tech Group
Vinci, ENGIE, AXA, Veolia,
Ogden Teleperformance, Schneider

GREATER SALT LAKE CITY AREA

Electric, Ger or, Essilor,
SALT LAKE Danone, Rossignol, Bank of
CITY the West BNP Paribas,
Nexans, Air Liquide, Suez,
Sonepar, Sodexo, Legrand,
Provo Saint Gobain, Biomérieux

tion
on
publicly available informa
Non-exhaustive list based
SELECTED

= 1,000 jobs
FRENCH-AFFILIATED
FIRMS IN UTAH

$427 million
France’s
ranking for
job creation
+113%
Trade increase
5,500
#2
Jobs created
by foreign over ten years by French
TRADED ANNUALLY companies 2010-2019 companies

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DIRECTION GÉNÉRALE Égalité
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& France A DEEP AND

MUTUALLY
BENEFICIAL
RELATIONSHIP

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$48 million job creation France’s contribution Trade increase Jobs created by
TRADED ANNUALLY #5 by foreign
companies
to FDI projects over
the past 10 years
over ten years
2010-2019
French companies

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 FDI position by foreign companies in the U.S., 2019
TRANSATLANTIC INVESTMENTS
SUPPORT ACQUISITIONS, GREENFIELD Investment 2019 Share of total FDI

AND EXPANSION PROJECTS (millions) in 2019

Japan 644.7 14.5%

Canada 580.7 13%

$311 billion Germany 522 11.7%

Investment in the US by
French businesses in United Kingdom 446.2 10%
2019 Ireland 343.5 7.7%

$84 billion FRANCE 310.7 7%

Investment in France
by U.S. businesses in Source: U.S. BEA, 2020, by ultimate bene cial owner of majority-owned
af liates
2019

Change in French FDI, 2010-2019

The bilateral investment stocks between the
United States and France amount to close to US$
300,000
400 billion in 2019
With US$ 311Bn. invested by French companies, France retains its 250,000
position as the sixth largest investor in the U.S., according to the U.S.
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). This investment stock is up 5.4%
200,000
Billions of USD
compared to 2018. Conversely, the U.S. retains its position as the leading
investor in France (Business France), with an FDI position amounting to
US$ 84 billion (BEA). French investments represent 7% of total inward 150,000
investment in the U.S. in 2019 while contributing up to 10% of total
foreign employment.
100,000
Conversely, the United States are the leading country in terms of
businesses investing in France in 2019. According to Business France,
50,000
238 new investment projects generated in France were originated by
U.S. businesses. U.S. investments generated 16% of all job-creating
foreign investment recorded in France last year. 0
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MIGRATION
THE GREAT

‘SUPER
SUMMER
LATE SUMMER

GENERATION’
There are at least three
or four generations
separating each
SPRiNG

migrating group of
butterflies. The
AUTUMN

monarchs traverse
thousands of
kilometers of terrain
WiNTER

to reach their
overwintering sites,
where they enter a state
NON- of dormancy that lasts
MiGRANT until early spring, when
ROCKY

GENERATiON they head back to their

LiFESPAN: feeding grounds,
~2 MONTHS breeding and then
SU

MiGRANT dying in the southern

GENERATiON U.S. Successive
LiFESPAN: generations slowly
M
M

~7 MONTHS
move north throughout
the year, until late
E
MOUNT

summer, when a new,

This would be physiologically distinct R
like if every 4th and longer-living B R
generation of “super generation” E E D
humans lived
to be 300 —
is born that will, by
instinct alone, make
I N G
and then went the same epic
to the moon migration south as
AINS

AY

their great-great
YW

and back.
grandparents.
FL
N
AY L
Y W RA

ER
F L NT

ST
EA
CE

Western
G B R E E DI N Eastern
population G
I N population
R
Small amounts of butterflies cross between
P
the eastern and western populations each
year. Some additional cross-contact S
occasionally occurs in the Rockies.

NONMiGRATORY
? POPULATION
MEXiCAN OVERWiNTERiNG

?
COLONY SiZE

1996: 44.95 ACRES

2003: 27.48 ACRES

2008: 12.5 ACRES Cumulative

overwintering colony
2015: 9.91 ACRES sizes for selected years.
2017: 6.12 ACRES Source: USFWS

MiLKWEED UNCONFIRMED
OVERWINTERING NORTHERN LiMiT
? MIGRATION ROUTES
AREAS
Winged
MIGRATIONS
Ruby-throated hummingbird Chimney swift
Archilochus colubris Chaetura pelagica
Migration 1,500 km Migration 5,000 km

F!k-"iled flycatcher Buff-breasted sandpiper

Tyrannous savana Calidris subruficollis
Migration 4,000 km
Migration 13,600 km

Snow goose Golden-crowned sparrow

Anser caerulescens
Zonotrichia atricapilla
Migration 4,800 km
Migration 3,300 km

Yellow-billed cuckoo Purple martin

Coccyzus americanus Progne subis
Migration 7,200 km Migration 5,400 km

White-rumped sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollis
Migration 12,800 km
Shenandoah
NATIONAL PARK
B L U E R I D G E M O U N TA I N S , V I R G I N I A
North Marshall
ELEVATION 3,368 FT

Three Sisters
ELEVATION 2,085 FT

Hazel Mountain
ELEVATION 2,880 FT

Stony Man Pinnacle Peak

ELEVATION 4,011 FT ELEVATION 3,401 FT

Old Rag
ELEVATION 3,268 FT

Hazeltop
ELEVATION 3,812 FT

Grindstone Mountain Bush Mountain

ELEVATION 2,850 FT ELEVATION 3,527 FT

Piney Mountain
ELEVATION 3,375 FT

Saddleback Mountain
ELEVATION 3,375 FT

Hightop
ELEVATION 3,587 FT

Rocky Mount
ELEVATION 2,740 FT

Trayfoot Mountain
ELEVATION 3,374 FT

Turk Mountain
ELEVATION 2,981 FT

APPALACHIAN TRAIL MD

WV DC

PARK TRAIL
VA
0 1 5 km

SKYLINE DRIVE 0 1 5 mi
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Agriculture et Biomasse

Commerce international

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Par Charlotte Beaumatin, Roxane Gennaoui-Hetier, Martin Klam et Adrien Pascal.

SOMMAIRE

Election présidentielle de 2020

1. Les grands enjeux de l’élection présidentielle en matière d’économie numérique ;
2. En Californie, les résultats de deux référendums d’initiative populaire pourraient être déterminants pour le futur
de la régulation du secteur numérique.

Régulation & gouvernance

3. Le Department of Justice (DOJ) et les procureurs généraux de 11 États fédérés portent plainte contre Google sur
ses activités de moteur de recherche ;
4. Le sous-comité à l’antitrust de la Chambre publie un rapport sur la politique de la concurrence et le numérique ;
5. Un juge fédéral a suspendu la décision d’interdiction de TikTok sur le marché américain ;
6. Le DOJ présente son projet de loi visant à réformer le Communications Decency Act ;
7. La commission judiciaire du Sénat auditionne les PDG de Google, de Facebook et de Twitter ;
8. Application du droit d’auteur aux interfaces de programmation : la Cour Suprême a entendu les avocats des parties
dans l’affaire ‘Oracle v. Google’ ;
9. Donald Trump propose la nomination de Nathan Simington à la Federal Communications Commission ;
10. L’État de New York a lancé une application de contact tracing en partenariat avec Apple et Google.

Entreprises & innovations

11. Le service de vidéos de courte durée « Quibi » ferme six mois après son lancement ;
12. Amazon teste une solution inédite de paiement par paume de la main ;
13. Des universitaires, des associations et des organisations non-gouvernementales lancent un comité « alternatif »
de surveillance de Facebook.

Relais d’opinion
14. Le directeur général d’Instagram estime contreproductif de bannir TikTok du territoire américain ;
15. Eric Schmidt et Robert Work soulignent les progrès réalisés par les États-Unis dans le secteur de l’IA.

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