Tesla's decision to locate the new European Distribution Center in Tilburg is the result of almost two years of on-going cooperation between Tesla, BOM Foreign Investments, NFIA (Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency), CBRE Group, Inc. and the City of Tilburg.

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Still, Noureddine Zekri, the head of Tunisia's Foreign Investment Promotion Agency, says he is optimistic: of the 3, 200 foreign companies operating in Tunisia, only 35, he says, have withdrawn since the revolution.

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Second, any purchase by Wanxiang must be approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a U.S. inter-agency panel that vets foreign deals for security concerns, and some lawmakers have already raised concerns about the deal, saying that it will transfer valuable U.S. taxpayer funded intellectual property to a foreign adversary.

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