Inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows by industry record the value of cross-border direct investment transactions received by the reporting economy during a year, by industry sector. It represents transactions that increase the investment that foreign investors have in enterprises of a specific industry resident in the reporting economy, less transactions that decrease the investment of foreign investors in those resident enterprises. This indicator is shown for a restricted list of 9 ISIC4 industries while the source database includes inward FDI flows for 84 ISIC4 industries, enabling, for example, the identification of the most attractive industries for FDI in each OECD economy in that year. Resident Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) are excluded for Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Iceland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Portugal. SPEs do not exist or are not significant in Australia, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, New Zealand, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Turkey and the United States. This indicator is measured in USD millions.