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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) iShares®  MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF
November 30, 2021 (Percentages shown are based on Net Assets)

  

Security  Shares   Value 
           
Common Stocks          
           
Australia — 60.1%          
Afterpay Ltd.(a)   266,178   $20,384,082 
Ampol Ltd.   292,612    5,934,571 
APA Group   1,454,244    9,833,170 
Aristocrat Leisure Ltd.   737,297    22,915,330 
ASX Ltd.   236,876    15,139,367 
Aurizon Holdings Ltd.   2,250,501    5,382,004 
AusNet Services Ltd.   2,358,694    4,260,111 
Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.   3,484,157    65,857,832 
BHP Group Ltd.   3,609,460    101,114,557 
BlueScope Steel Ltd.   615,667    8,557,325 
Brambles Ltd.   1,763,930    12,496,876 
Cochlear Ltd.   80,382    12,360,221 
Coles Group Ltd.   1,631,985    20,840,107 
Commonwealth Bank of Australia   2,170,503    143,299,256 
Computershare Ltd.   670,044    9,056,003 
Crown Resorts Ltd.(a)   461,365    3,604,937 
CSL Ltd.   556,823    121,074,192 
Dexus   1,315,891    10,401,388 
Domino's Pizza Enterprises Ltd.   74,108    6,779,788 
Endeavour Group Ltd.   1,637,857    7,955,382 
Evolution Mining Ltd.   2,222,756    6,352,761 
Fortescue Metals Group Ltd.   2,071,814    24,879,912 
Goodman Group   2,034,200    35,505,328 
GPT Group (The)   2,343,597    8,744,514 
IDP Education Ltd.   255,396    6,368,424 
Insurance Australia Group Ltd.   3,014,597    9,469,157 
James Hardie Industries PLC   544,585    21,344,686 
Lendlease Corp. Ltd.   846,569    6,380,517 
Macquarie Group Ltd.   428,671    59,697,748 
Magellan Financial Group Ltd.   170,396    3,988,449 
Medibank Pvt Ltd.   3,369,362    8,232,343 
Mirvac Group   4,804,033    9,726,740 
National Australia Bank Ltd.   4,028,857    77,849,831 
Newcrest Mining Ltd.   999,906    16,586,826 
Northern Star Resources Ltd.   1,353,175    9,033,567 
Oil Search Ltd.   2,415,023    6,494,467 
Orica Ltd.   498,042    4,985,055 
Origin Energy Ltd.   2,148,727    7,317,103 
Qantas Airways Ltd.(a)   1,147,129    4,100,631 
QBE Insurance Group Ltd.   1,806,225    14,860,914 
Ramsay Health Care Ltd.   223,828    10,594,177 
REA Group Ltd.   64,655    7,401,425 
Reece Ltd.   356,266    5,887,993 
Rio Tinto Ltd.   454,161    30,134,821 
Santos Ltd.   2,293,659    10,342,642 
Scentre Group   6,348,705    13,894,899 
SEEK Ltd.   410,944    10,083,567 
Sonic Healthcare Ltd.   555,839    16,807,175 
South32 Ltd.   5,719,025    14,291,105 
Stockland   2,910,919    8,986,847 
Suncorp Group Ltd.   1,579,453    12,101,900 
Sydney Airport(a)   1,617,606    9,527,199 
Tabcorp Holdings Ltd.   2,732,675    9,620,213 
Telstra Corp. Ltd.   5,092,765    14,677,094 
Transurban Group   3,731,150    36,016,925 
Treasury Wine Estates Ltd.   883,139    7,582,520 
Vicinity Centres   4,744,540    5,686,017 
Washington H Soul Pattinson & Co. Ltd.   263,867    5,817,180 
Security  Shares   Value 
           
Australia (continued)          
Wesfarmers Ltd.   1,387,187   $55,916,714 
Westpac Banking Corp.   4,488,515    65,029,138 
WiseTech Global Ltd.   178,894    6,553,361 
Woodside Petroleum Ltd.   1,178,884    17,886,356 
Woolworths Group Ltd.   1,550,899    44,901,883 
         1,368,906,623 
China — 0.6%          
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd.   2,446,800    4,374,862 
Futu Holdings Ltd., ADR(a)   62,288    2,958,057 
SITC International Holdings Co. Ltd.   1,635,000    6,527,544 
         13,860,463 
Hong Kong — 24.8%          
AIA Group Ltd.   14,799,614    155,802,080 
BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd.   4,527,500    13,685,761 
Budweiser Brewing Co. APAC Ltd.(b)   2,120,500    5,384,667 
CK Asset Holdings Ltd.   2,451,732    14,023,946 
CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.   3,292,232    20,610,066 
CK Infrastructure Holdings Ltd.   817,708    4,745,531 
CLP Holdings Ltd.   2,009,000    19,681,901 
ESR Cayman Ltd.(a)(b)   2,449,200    8,085,264 
Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd.(a)   2,662,000    14,471,765 
Hang Lung Properties Ltd.   2,458,736    4,874,591 
Hang Seng Bank Ltd.   935,600    16,544,519 
Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd.   1,767,442    7,227,267 
HK Electric Investments & HK Electric Investments Ltd.,          
Class SS   3,240,500    3,170,687 
HKT Trust & HKT Ltd., Class SS   4,670,338    6,321,526 
Hong Kong & China Gas Co. Ltd.   13,697,253    20,416,950 
Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd.   1,473,600    81,035,356 
Hongkong Land Holdings Ltd.(c)   1,427,300    7,694,764 
Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd.   264,900    14,982,956 
Link REIT   2,559,286    22,185,856 
Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd., ADR(a)   264,328    2,579,841 
MTR Corp. Ltd.   1,889,286    10,062,590 
New World Development Co. Ltd.   1,866,480    7,369,712 
Power Assets Holdings Ltd.   1,695,000    10,211,836 
Sands China Ltd.(a)   2,952,800    6,748,057 
Sino Land Co. Ltd.   4,072,800    4,848,879 
Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd.   1,595,500    19,427,896 
Swire Pacific Ltd., Class A   617,500    3,409,295 
Swire Properties Ltd.   1,433,200    3,401,714 
Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd.   1,682,707    34,607,738 
WH Group Ltd.(b)   10,280,500    6,468,461 
Wharf Real Estate Investment Co. Ltd.   2,042,600    10,311,690 
Xinyi Glass Holdings Ltd.   2,226,000    5,429,907 
         565,823,069 
Malta — 0.0%          
BGP Holdings PLC(d)   27,004,595    306 
           
New Zealand — 2.7%          
a2 Milk Co. Ltd. (The)(a)   3,181    13,262 
Auckland International Airport Ltd.(a)   1,531,443    8,214,181 
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corp. Ltd.   705,431    15,960,767 
Mercury NZ Ltd.   832,896    3,403,593 
Meridian Energy Ltd.   1,578,888    5,077,533 
Ryman Healthcare Ltd.   520,513    4,350,430 
Spark New Zealand Ltd.   2,284,319    7,144,376 
Xero Ltd.(a)   163,562    16,612,575 
         60,776,717 


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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued) iShares®  MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF
November 30, 2021 (Percentages shown are based on Net Assets)

  

Security  Shares   Value 
         
Singapore — 9.1%          
Ascendas REIT   4,123,380   $8,812,164 
CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust   5,944,538    9,163,232 
Capitaland Investment Ltd/Singapore(a)   3,228,000    7,948,467 
City Developments Ltd.   504,900    2,591,664 
DBS Group Holdings Ltd.   2,216,100    48,272,436 
Genting Singapore Ltd.   7,398,200    4,169,781 
Keppel Corp. Ltd.   1,806,700    6,734,099 
Mapletree Commercial Trust   2,641,200    3,937,781 
Mapletree Logistics Trust   3,738,654    5,085,665 
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Ltd.   4,153,224    33,284,754 
Singapore Airlines Ltd.(a)(c)   1,639,250    5,837,412 
Singapore Exchange Ltd.   905,600    5,912,497 
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd.   1,910,100    5,314,297 
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd.   10,102,328    17,395,334 
United Overseas Bank Ltd.   1,443,900    27,024,198 
UOL Group Ltd.   567,300    2,851,488 
Venture Corp. Ltd.   338,700    4,583,349 
Wilmar International Ltd.   2,382,000    7,144,069 
         206,062,687 
Taiwan — 2.1%          
Sea Ltd., ADR(a)(c)   168,566    48,558,808 
           
Total Common Stocks — 99.4%          
(Cost: $2,238,975,290)   .    2,263,988,673 
           

Rights

 

Singapore — 0.0%        
Mapletree Logistics Trust (Expires 12/14/21)(a)   138,330    2,027 
           
Total Rights — 0.0%          
(Cost: $0)       2,027 
Security  Shares   Value 
         
Short-Term Investments          
           
Money Market Funds — 1.2%          
BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional, SL Agency Shares,          
0.06%(e)(f)(g)   27,075,913   $27,086,743 
BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, SL Agency Shares,          
0.00%(e)(f)   1,070,000    1,070,000 
         28,156,743 
Total Short-Term Investments — 1.2%          
(Cost: $28,155,214)       28,156,743 
           
Total Investments in Securities — 100.6%          
(Cost: $2,267,130,504)       2,292,147,443 
           
Other Assets, Less Liabilities — (0.6)%       (13,923,438)
           
Net Assets—100.0%      $2,278,224,005 

 

(a)Non-income producing security.
(b)Security exempt from registration pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. These securities may be resold in transactions exempt from registration to qualified institutional investors.
(c)All or a portion of this security is on loan.
(d)Security is valued using significant unobservable inputs and is classified as Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy.
(e)Affiliate of the Fund.
(f)Annualized 7-day yield as of period end.
(g)All or a portion of this security was purchased with the cash collateral from loaned securities.


Affiliates

 

Investments in issuers considered to be affiliate(s) of the Fund during the period ended November 30, 2021 for purposes of Section 2(a)(3) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, were as follows:

 

Affiliated Issuer   Value at
08/31/21
  Purchases
at Cost
  Proceeds
from Sales
  Net Realized
Gain (Loss)
  Change in
Unrealized Appreciation (Depreciation)
  Value at
11/30/21
  Shares
Held at
11/30/21
  Income  

Capital
Gain
Distributions

from
Underlying
Funds 

 
BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional, SL Agency  Shares   $ 24,751,750   $ 2,339,060 (a)  $ $ (3,611)   $ (456)   $ 27,086,743     27,075,913   $ 501,261 (b)  $  
BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, SL Agency Shares     930,000     140,000 (a)                1,070,000     1,070,000     10      
                      $ (3,611)   $ (456)   $ 28,156,743         501,271   $  

 

(a) Represents net amount purchased (sold).
(b) All or a portion represents securities lending income earned from the reinvestment of cash collateral from loaned securities, net of fees and collateral investment expenses, and other payments to and from borrowers of securities.

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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued) iShares®  MSCI Pacific ex Japan ETF
November 30, 2021

  

Derivative Financial Instruments Outstanding as of Period End

 

Futures Contracts

 

               Value/ 
           Notional   Unrealized 
   Number of   Expiration   Amount   Appreciation 
Description  Contracts   Date   (000)   (Depreciation) 
Long Contracts                    
SPI 200 Index   73    12/16/21   $9,341   $(298,712)
MSCI Singapore Index   161    12/30/21    4,050    (252,998)
                  $(551,710)

 

Fair Value Measurements

 

Various inputs are used in determining the fair value of financial instruments. These inputs to valuation techniques are categorized into a fair value hierarchy consisting of three broad levels for financial reporting purposes as follows:

Level 1 – Unadjusted price quotations in active markets/exchanges for identical assets or liabilities that each Fund has the ability to access;
Level 2 – Other observable inputs (including, but not limited to, quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in markets that are active, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the assets or liabilities (such as interest rates, yield curves, volatilities, prepayment speeds, loss severities, credit risks and default rates) or other market-corroborated inputs); and
Level 3 – Unobservable inputs based on the best information available in the circumstances, to the extent observable inputs are not available (including the BlackRock Global Valuation Methodologies Committee’s (the “Global Valuation Committee’s”) assumptions used in determining the fair value of financial instruments).

 

The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). Accordingly, the degree of judgment exercised in determining fair value is greatest for instruments categorized in Level 3. The inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, for disclosure purposes, the fair value hierarchy classification is determined based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. Investments classified within Level 3 have significant unobservable inputs used by the Global Valuation Committee in determining the price for Fair Valued Investments. Level 3 investments include equity or debt issued by privately held companies or funds. There may not be a secondary market, and/or there are a limited number of investors. The categorization of a value determined for financial instruments is based on the pricing transparency of the financial instruments and is not necessarily an indication of the risks associated with investing in those securities. For information about the Fund’s policy regarding valuation of financial instruments, refer to its most recent financial statements.

 

The following table summarizes the Fund’s financial instruments categorized in the fair value hierarchy. The breakdown of the Fund’s financial instruments into major categories is disclosed in the Schedule of Investments above.

 

   Level 1   Level 2   Level 3   Total 
Investments                    
Assets                    
Common Stocks  $70,090,451   $2,193,897,916   $306   $2,263,988,673 
Rights       2,027        2,027 
Money Market Funds   28,156,743            28,156,743 
   $98,247,194   2,193,899,943   $306   $2,292,147,443 
Derivative financial instruments(a)                    
Liabilities                    
Futures Contracts  $   $(551,710)  $   $(551,710)

 

(a) Derivative financial instruments are futures contracts. Futures contracts are valued at the unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on the instrument.

 

Portfolio Abbreviations - Equity

 

ADR American Depositary Receipt
REIT Real Estate Investment Trust

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