In recent years, the U. S. has been the largest direct investor in France and France has been one of the three largest investors in the U.S. French companies employ over 400,000 Americans. France is the third largest destination of foreign investments in the world. Overall, the French export more per capital than the Japanese and more than twice as much as the Americans. France is overall, the fourth largest exporting nation of the world. France is the world's leader in the production of luxury goods.
More tourists visit France than any other country in the world.
Seven of France's top ten exports to the U.S. are industrial or high technology products. France is a major world research center in the field of high-energy physics. The French are the world's third manufacturers of electronics equipment. Most commercial satellites are put into space on French Ariane rockets. France has one of the most advanced systems of telecommunications in the world.