Countries with Investor Treaties with the U.S.

The United States has treaties with over 60 countries which permit nationals of those countries to invest a substantial amount of capital in a bona fide enterprise in the U.S, or to be employed as an executive, supervisor or essential employee in an enterprise which is owned by a treaty national.

These countries are as follows:

Albania Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Bangladesh
Belgium Bosnia-Herzegovina Bulgaria Cameroon Canada China (Taiwan)
Colombia Congo (Brazzaville) Congo (Kinshasa) Costa Rica Czech Republic Ecuador
Egypt Estonia Ethiopia Finland France Georgia
Germany Grenada Iran Ireland Italy Jamaica
Japan Jordan Kazakhstan (South) Korea Kyrgyzstan Latvia
Liberia Luxembourg Mexico Moldovia Mongolia Morocco
Netherlands Norway Oman Pakistan Panama Philippines
Poland Romania Senegal Slovakia Sri Lanka Suriname
Sweden Swtizerland Thailand Togo Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia
Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Yugoslavia    

The following thirteen (13) treaties have yet to enter into force, either because the treaties have not yet been ratified or because there has not been a formal exchange of instruments of ratification: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bolivia, Croatia, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Jordan, Lithuania, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Russia and Uzbekistan.