Article: The growing importance of United States affiliates of transnational corporations based in the United Kingdom.

This article explores the activities of United Kingdom-based transnational corporations (TNCs) and their affiliates in the United States. It extends UNCTAD's transnationality index to derive a "relative importance index" of the United States-based activities of United Kingdom TNCs. The results indicate that for some highly internationalized United Kingdom TNCs, activities in the United States account for a predominant proportion in their overall activities, In some cases, the United States affiliates contribute over 60% of the TNC's revenues, profits and net assets. The policy implications of such concentration of TNCs activities in a single foreign country are discussed. ...

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