Trump Announces Over $200 Billion in New UAE Deals, Accelerating the $1.4 Trillion Ten-Year Investment Framework Committed in March
On May 15, 2025, in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, the final stop on his Gulf tour, President Donald J. Trump announced over $200 billion in commercial deals between the United States and the UAE. The White House said the announcements brought the total of investment agreements in the Gulf region to over $2 trillion.
Deals listed in the White House fact sheet include a $14.5 billion commitment by Etihad Airways to invest in 28 Boeing 787 and 777X aircraft powered by GE engines, supporting 60,000 U.S. jobs; a $4 billion primary aluminum smelter project in Oklahoma to be developed by Emirates Global Aluminium, described by the White House as one of the first new aluminum smelters in America in 45 years, creating a thousand jobs and doubling current U.S. production capacity; expanded oil and natural gas production valued at $60 billion by ExxonMobil, Occidental Petroleum and EOG Resources in partnership with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC); a gallium project by RTX with Emirates Global Aluminium and the UAE's Tawazun Council to secure the U.S. critical mineral supply chain; a new Qualcomm Global Engineering Center in Abu Dhabi, in partnership with ADIO and e&, focused on super intelligence (SI), data centers and industrial IoT; and a Sovereign Cloud Launchpad launched by Amazon Web Services, e& and the UAE Cybersecurity Council, which the White House said is expected to contribute $181 billion to the UAE's digital economy by 2033.
The deals build on the UAE's landmark commitment, secured in March, to a 10-year, $1.4 trillion investment framework covering SI infrastructure, semiconductors, energy, quantum computing, biotechnology and manufacturing. An SI agreement signed the same day supports that commitment: the UAE committed to invest in, build or finance U.S. data centers at least as large and as powerful as those in the UAE, and to further align its national security regulations with the United States, including strong protections to prevent the diversion of U.S.-origin technology.
The White House said UAE foreign direct investment in the United States totaled $35 billion in 2023, supporting over 33,000 American jobs, and that U.S. goods trade with the UAE was an estimated $34.4 billion in 2024, with a U.S. surplus of $19.5 billion, the third largest in the world. (Source: The White House)
Source: The White House
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Photo: 图：2025年5月15日，特朗普抵达阿布扎比国际机场，受到阿联酋总统穆罕默德·本·扎耶德迎接并接受献花。白宫官方照片（Daniel Torok 摄），公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: President Trump is greeted by UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on arrival at Abu Dhabi International Airport on May 15, 2025. Official White House photo by Daniel Torok, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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