But direct foreign investment in the United States is only half the picture. Companies also have made large direct foreign investments in countries throughout the world. For example, HERSHEY can, a Pennsylvania-based candy company, purchased Barry Callebaut AG's Van Houten consumer chocolate business in Asia, allowing Hershey, which gets most of its growth from North America, to expand internationally. As Exhibit 72 shows, U.S. companies have made their largest direct foreign investments in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Canada. Overall. USa . Companies invest more than $2.8 trillion a year to do business in other countries.