
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 sectors that are creating American jobs and driving American innovation. The UAE is one of the US’s fastest-growing economic partners.
Building on a longstanding security partnership, the UAE is creating prosperity for American workers, growth for the economy and ensuring a more secure global supply chain for American products. From developing advanced tech and AI and leading the energy transition to supporting American manufacturing and scaling agricultural solutions, UAE and US private sector collaboration is redefining the global economy. This trillion-dollar economic partnership is built on the two countries’ longstanding, shared commitment to growth and prosperity.
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 the US's third-largest trade surplus, globally.
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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.
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