
With a long track record of successful investment and trade, the UAE has a $1 trillion economic relationship with the US – and wants to do more. This is a result of direct investments in US companies and significant purchases of products and services across key sectors such as aerospace, energy, manufacturing, technology, life sciences and healthcare.
This mutually beneficial relationship serves all 50 US states and all the sectors that are creating American jobs and driving American innovation. The UAE is one of the US’s fastest-growing economic partners. In 2024, trade between the US and the UAE totaled $34.4 billion, with US exports to the Emirates making up nearly $27 billion.
The UAE is creating prosperity for American workers, growth for the economy and ensuring a more secure global supply chain for American products.
The UAE-US Strategic 10-year Investment and Trade Framework
The UAE is working with the Trump Administration to make a historic $1.4 trillion investment in the US over the next decade, fueling innovation in AI, clean energy, and advanced manufacturing, and creating new opportunities for American businesses and workers. This new investment builds on the existing $1 trillion economic relationship with the US and will increase total UAE investment to $2.4 trillion over the next ten years.
Specific, strategic investments will include:
Emirates Global Aluminum plans to invest in the first new aluminum smelter in the United States in 35 years, nearly doubling US domestic aluminum production.
ADQ and Energy Capital Partners have formed a $25 billion US energy venture to invest in power generation for data centers and Al projects.
ADQ and Orion Resource Partners have agreed to a $1.2 billion mining partnership to secure supplies of critical minerals.
XRG, an international lower-carbon energy and chemicals investment company launched by ADNOC, will invest in US natural gas production and exports, according to the White House.
*Please note: this map may be continually updated.
UAE-US Tech Spotlight
Advanced technology is the newest pillar of the UAE-US commercial partnerships. From Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft to OpenAI and IBM, the UAE is forging deep partnerships with America’s leading technology companies.
Microsoft invested $1.5 billion in Abu Dhabi’s G42, deepening their existing partnership to deliver and expand advanced AI and cloud solutions worldwide. The deal will also see the creation of Microsoft’s Global Engineering Development Center in the UAE. This is one of Microsoft’s first engineering centers in the Arab world.
Joint investments between the UAE and US are meeting the growing demand for advanced tech infrastructure and data centers. The UAE’s DAMAC Properties announced a $20 billion investment to build new data centers across the Midwest and Sun Belt. US private equity firm KKR and Dubai’s Gulf Data Hub (GDH) also announced a more than $5 billion investment to boost data center infrastructure in the Gulf.
Abu Dhabi’s G42 and California-based Cerebras Systems delivered Condor Galaxy, the world’s largest and fastest AI supercomputer.
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, part of the M42 network, and Cleveland Clinic colleagues in the US conducted the UAE’s first robot-assisted kidney transplants.
IBM and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) launched an AI Center of Excellence to develop carbon-neutral solutions to existing energy supplies and further natural language processing (NLP) for Arabic dialects.
BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, Microsoft and MGX launched the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP) aiming to unlock up to $100 billion in investment for US data centers and related infrastructure. NVIDIA, xAI, GE Vernova and NextEra Energy later joined, boosting AIP’s technology leadership and energy expertise.
Reliable Security Partners
The mutually beneficial economic relationship between the UAE and US is rooted in a deep defense and security alliance. The UAE is one of only three countries and the only Arab country to participate in all nine US-led coalition actions over the last 35 years.
As a CENTCOM partner, the UAE fights terrorism alongside the US against ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Shabaab, and Iranian-backed militias such as the Houthis, and others
The UAE hosts and funds Hedayah, a global counter-extremism think tank created with the US & other partners. The US and UAE jointly created the Sawab Center to counter online extremist propaganda
From Al Dhafra Air Base, the US Air Force operates key aircraft platforms, hosting 3,500 US personnel - UAE and US pilots train together at the base's Air Warfare Center
The US Navy's Fifth Fleet relies on Dubai's Jebel Ali Port (JAP) for maritime security and resupply. JAP hosts more US naval visits than any port outside the US
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