U.S. International Transactions Accounts Data

Table 1. U.S. International Transactions

Footnotes:

^p Preliminary.

0 Transactions are possible, but are zero for a given period.

(*) Transactions are less than $500,000(±).

^D Suppressed to avoid disclosure of individual companies.

n.a. Transactions are possible, but data are not available.

..... Not applicable, or for data periods 1960-1997, transactions that are 0, “not available,” or “not applicable.”

Quarterly estimates are not annualized and are expressed at quarterly rates.

¹ Credits, +: Exports of goods and services and income receipts; unilateral current transfers to the United States; capital account transactions receipts; financial inflows--increase in foreign-owned assets (U.S. liabilities) or decrease in U.S.-owned assets (U.S. claims).
Debits, -: Imports of goods and services and income payments; unilateral current transfers to foreigners; capital account transactions payments; financial outflows--decrease in foreign-owned assets (U.S. liabilities) or increase in U.S.-owned assets (U.S. claims).

² Excludes exports of goods under U.S. military agency sales contracts identified in Census export documents, excludes imports of goods under direct defense expenditures identified in Census import documents, and reflects various other adjustments (for valuation, coverage, and timing) of Census statistics to balance of payments basis; see table 2a and table 2b.

³ Includes some goods: Mainly military equipment in line 5; major equipment, other materials, supplies, and petroleum products purchased abroad by U.S. military agencies in line 22; and fuels purchased by airline and steamship operators in lines 8 and 25.

⁴ Includes transfers of goods and services under U.S. military grant programs.

⁵ Beginning in 1982, these lines are presented on a gross basis. The definition of exports is revised to exclude U.S. parents' payments to foreign affiliates and to include U.S. affiliates' receipts from foreign parents. The definition of imports is revised to include U.S. parents' payments to foreign affiliates and to exclude U.S. affiliates' receipts from foreign parents.

⁶ Beginning in 1982, the "other transfers" component includes taxes paid by U.S. private residents to foreign governments and taxes paid by private nonresidents to the U.S. Government.

⁷ At the present time, all U.S.-Treasury-owned gold is held in the United States.

⁸ Includes sales of foreign obligations to foreigners.

⁹ Consists of bills, certificates, marketable bonds and notes, and nonmarketable convertible and nonconvertible bonds and notes.

¹⁰ Consists of U.S. Treasury and Export-Import Bank obligations, not included elsewhere, and of debt securities of U.S. government corporations and agencies.

¹¹ Includes, primarily, U.S. government liabilities associated with military agency sales contracts and other transactions arranged with or through foreign official agencies; see table 6.

¹² Consists of investments in U.S. corporate stocks and in debt securities of private corporations and state and local governments.

¹³ Conceptually, the sum of line 77 and line 39 is equal to "net lending or net borrowing" in the national income and product accounts (NIPAs). However, the foreign transactions account in the NIPAs (a) includes adjustments to the international transactions accounts for the treatment of gold, (b) includes adjustments for the different geographical treatment of transactions with U.S. territories and Puerto Rico, and (c) includes services furnished without payment by financial pension plans except life insurance carriers and private noninsured pension plans. A reconciliation of the balance on goods and services from the international accounts and the NIPA net exports appears in reconciliation table 2 in appendix A in the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS. A reconciliation of the other foreign transactions in the two sets of accounts appears in table 4.3B of the full set of NIPA tables.

¹⁴ For 1974, includes extraordinary U.S. government transactions with India. See "Special U.S. Government Transactions," June 1974 SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS, p. 27.

¹⁵ For 1978-83, includes foreign currency-denominated notes sold to private residents abroad.

¹⁶ Break in series. See Technical Notes in the June 1989, June 1990, June 1992, June 1993, June 1995, and July 1996-2008 issues of the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS.

¹⁷ Seasonally adjusted data for lines 57 and 58 are not available separately through 1972; they are combined with data in line 61.

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