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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) iShares® MSCI Taiwan ETF
May 31, 2023 (Percentages shown are based on Net Assets)

 

Security  Shares   Value 
         
Common Stocks          
           
Passenger Airlines — 0.5%          
China Airlines Ltd.(a)   12,488,000   $8,998,167 
Eva Airways Corp.   12,084,000    13,310,329 
         22,308,496 
Automobile Components — 0.5%          
Cheng Shin Rubber Industry Co. Ltd.   15,362,670    19,462,186 
           
Banks — 11.6%          
Chang Hwa Commercial Bank Ltd.   41,374,708    24,215,432 
CTBC Financial Holding Co. Ltd.   88,101,325    69,560,967 
E.Sun Financial Holding Co. Ltd.(a)   70,524,434    59,364,729 
First Financial Holding Co. Ltd.(a)   58,392,385    53,355,373 
Hua Nan Financial Holdings Co. Ltd.   54,278,387    39,256,357 
Mega Financial Holding Co. Ltd.(a)   56,264,652    65,452,663 
Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank Ltd. (The)(a)   23,150,218    34,008,022 
SinoPac Financial Holdings Co. Ltd.   67,827,226    38,154,921 
Taishin Financial Holding Co. Ltd.   72,599,207    43,312,749 
Taiwan Business Bank   23,377,000    10,713,371 
Taiwan Cooperative Financial Holding Co. Ltd.   54,977,933    49,974,947 
         487,369,531 
Biotechnology — 0.3%          
PharmaEssentia Corp.(a)(b)   980,000    11,148,920 
Chemicals — 3.9%          
Formosa Chemicals & Fibre Corp.   18,413,610    40,959,821 
Formosa Plastics Corp.(a)   19,788,518    60,565,579 
Nan Ya Plastics Corp.(a)   24,538,938    62,015,678 
         163,541,078 
Communications Equipment — 0.9%          
Accton Technology Corp.   3,273,000    37,527,506 
Construction Materials — 1.5%          
Asia Cement Corp.   16,867,136    24,103,313 
Taiwan Cement Corp.(a)   30,472,645    37,552,167 
         61,655,480 
Financial Services — 2.2%          
Chailease Holding Co. Ltd.(a)   7,673,167    50,492,064 
Yuanta Financial Holding Co. Ltd.   56,020,306    43,424,533 
         93,916,597 
Diversified Telecommunication Services — 1.8% 
Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd.(a)   18,490,648    75,853,200 
Electrical Equipment — 0.9%          
Voltronic Power Technology Corp.   335,000    21,081,125 
Walsin Lihwa Corp.(a)   11,941,178    17,896,558 
Ya Hsin Industrial Co. Ltd.(c)   6,845,461    2 
         38,977,685 
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components — 13.4% 
AUO Corp.(a)   42,230,664    24,155,897 
Delta Electronics Inc.(a)   9,317,180    95,677,735 
E Ink Holdings Inc.(a)   4,340,000    29,175,751 
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd.   54,948,296    190,108,896 
Innolux Corp.   52,022,210    23,495,956 
Largan Precision Co. Ltd.   512,794    37,686,105 
Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board Corp.(a)   1,913,000    18,776,889 
Pacific Electric Wire & Cable Co. Ltd.(c)   197     
Synnex Technology International Corp.(a)   11,288,364    23,453,257 
Unimicron Technology Corp.(a)   7,007,000    40,985,746 
WPG Holdings Ltd.(a)   14,921,604    25,793,569 
Security  Shares   Value 
     
Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components (continued) 
Yageo Corp.(a)   2,073,767   $34,171,081 
Zhen Ding Technology Holding Ltd.   5,359,072    20,173,380 
         563,654,262 
Consumer Staples Distribution & Retail — 0.8%          
President Chain Store Corp.   3,584,215    32,587,887 
           
Food Products — 1.4%          
Uni-President Enterprises Corp.   24,223,189    58,524,062 
           
Household Durables — 0.4%          
Nien Made Enterprise Co. Ltd.   1,516,000    17,356,236 
           
Industrial Conglomerates — 0.6%          
Far Eastern New Century Corp.(a)   24,597,843    25,824,178 
           
Insurance — 4.8%          
Cathay Financial Holding Co. Ltd.(a)   43,463,798    62,528,769 
China Development Financial Holding Corp.(a)   89,975,587    37,093,774 
Fubon Financial Holding Co. Ltd.(a)   37,384,823    73,828,192 
Shin Kong Financial Holding Co. Ltd.(a)   97,384,273    27,281,526 
         200,732,261 
Leisure Products — 0.4%          
Giant Manufacturing Co. Ltd.(a)   2,483,372    16,601,173 
           
Machinery — 0.7%          
Airtac International Group   953,826    30,746,585 
           
Marine Transportation — 1.0%          
Evergreen Marine Corp. Taiwan Ltd.(a)   5,415,013    26,873,582 
Wan Hai Lines Ltd.   2,351,000    4,422,459 
Yang Ming Marine Transport Corp.   5,427,000    10,708,925 
         42,004,966 
Metals & Mining — 1.4%          
China Steel Corp.(a)   60,907,977    57,436,077 
           
Broadline Retail — 0.1%          
momo.com Inc(a)   298,800    6,773,995 
           
Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels — 0.5%          
Formosa Petrochemical Corp.(a)   8,299,950    23,265,797 
           
Real Estate Management & Development — 0.4% 
Ruentex Development Co. Ltd.   15,588,188    17,676,462 
           
Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment — 36.7% 
ASE Technology Holding Co. Ltd.   17,431,432    62,989,363 
eMemory Technology Inc.   343,000    20,449,664 
Global Unichip Corp.   131,000    6,373,607 
Globalwafers Co. Ltd.(a)   1,401,000    22,907,620 
MediaTek Inc.(a)   6,657,175    163,590,709 
Nanya Technology Corp.(a)   9,824,000    23,414,284 
Novatek Microelectronics Corp.(a)   3,202,544    44,215,305 
Parade Technologies Ltd.(a)   372,000    12,304,476 
Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.(a)   12,442,000    12,460,386 
Realtek Semiconductor Corp.(a)   2,730,063    33,834,210 
Silergy Corp.(a)   1,724,000    22,290,300 
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.   53,555,882    969,245,343 
United Microelectronics Corp.(a)   56,533,501    94,624,844 
Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp.(a)   6,482,000    19,527,375 
Win Semiconductors Corp.(a)   2,270,000    11,769,189 
Winbond Electronics Corp.(a)   26,524,000    22,921,437 
         1,542,918,112 

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Schedule of Investments (unaudited) (continued) iShares® MSCI Taiwan ETF
May 31, 2023 (Percentages shown are based on Net Assets)

 

Security  Shares   Value 
         
Specialty Retail — 1.1%          
Hotai Motor Co. Ltd.   1,803,000   $47,145,398 
           
Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals — 8.9% 
Acer Inc.(a)   23,996,737    24,052,049 
Advantech Co. Ltd.(a)   2,512,827    33,212,233 
Asustek Computer Inc.(a)   3,966,857    39,324,276 
Catcher Technology Co. Ltd.   4,469,743    26,944,487 
Compal Electronics Inc.(a)   31,727,554    28,715,798 
Inventec Corp.(a)   24,538,868    29,410,852 
Lite-On Technology Corp.   13,893,071    40,196,261 
Micro-Star International Co. Ltd.(a)   5,188,000    27,981,784 
Pegatron Corp.(a)   12,372,037    30,295,181 
Quanta Computer Inc.   15,376,240    58,145,490 
Wistron Corp.   3,254,000    7,063,438 
Wiwynn Corp.(a)   743,000    27,933,663 
         373,275,512 
Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods — 1.5%          
Eclat Textile Co. Ltd.   1,472,601    22,388,362 
Feng TAY Enterprise Co. Ltd.   3,481,747    21,580,010 
Pou Chen Corp.(a)   20,678,103    21,270,466 
         65,238,838 
Transportation Infrastructure — 0.5%          
Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp.   19,771,000    20,920,550 
           
Wireless Telecommunication Services — 1.5%          
Far EasTone Telecommunications Co. Ltd.(a)   11,420,259    28,516,404 
Taiwan Mobile Co. Ltd.(a)   10,018,609    33,733,243 
         62,249,647 

 

Total Long-Term Investments — 100.2%    
(Cost: $1,801,191,244)   4,216,692,677 
Security  Shares   Value 
         
Short-Term Securities          
           
Money Market Funds — 14.0%          
BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional, SL Agency Shares, 5.29%(d)(e)(f)   585,746,373   $585,863,523 
BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, SL Agency Shares, 5.07%(d)(e)   2,960,000    2,960,000 
           
Total Short-Term Securities — 14.0%          
(Cost: $588,844,918)        588,823,523 
           
Total Investments — 114.2%          
(Cost: $2,390,036,162)        4,805,516,200 
           
Liabilities in Excess of Other Assets — (14.2)%        (597,952,478)
           
Net Assets — 100.0%       $4,207,563,722 

 

(a)All or a portion of this security is on loan.

(b)Non-income producing security.

(c)Security is valued using significant unobservable inputs and is classified as Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy.

(d)Affiliate of the Fund.

(e)Annualized 7-day yield as of period end.

(f)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 May 31, 2023 for purposes of Section 2(a)(3) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, were as follows:

 

Affiliated Issuer  Value at
08/31/22
   Purchases
at Cost
   Proceeds
from Sale
  Net Realized
Gain (Loss)
   Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
   Value at
05/31/23
   Shares
Held at
05/31/23
   Income   Capital
Gain
Distributions
from
Underlying
Funds
 
BlackRock Cash Funds: Institutional, SL Agency Shares  $407,562,083   $178,316,512(a)  $  $132,367   $(147,439)  $585,863,523    585,746,373   $5,118,742(b)  $ 
BlackRock Cash Funds: Treasury, SL Agency Shares   3,220,000        (260,000)(a)          2,960,000    2,960,000    356,163    4 
                 $132,367   $(147,439)  $588,823,523        $5,474,905   $4 

 

(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 Taiwan ETF
May 31, 2023  

 

Derivative Financial Instruments Outstanding as of Period End

 

Futures Contracts

 

Description  Number of
Contracts
   Expiration
Date
  Notional
Amount
(000)
   Value/
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
 
Long Contracts                  
FTSE Taiwan Index   89   06/29/23  $5,044   $94,471 

 

Fair Value Hierarchy as of Period End

 

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 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 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 
Assets                    
Investments                    
Long-Term Investments                    
Common Stocks  $   $4,216,692,675   $2   $4,216,692,677 
Short-Term Securities                    
Money Market Funds   588,823,523            588,823,523 
   $588,823,523   $4,216,692,675   $2   $4,805,516,200 
Derivative Financial Instruments(a)                    
Assets                    
Equity Contracts  $   $94,471   $   $94,471 

 

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

 

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