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Today's Date: October 17, 2008 Release Date: September 17, 2008 Next Release Date: December 17, 2008
Earliest Quarter Revised on September 17, 2008: 2008:I

Table 12. U.S. International Transactions, by Area - Latin America and Other Western Hemisphere ²⁶
[Millions of dollars, not seasonally adjusted]

Line	(Credits +; debits -) ¹	2007				2008
Line	(Credits +; debits -) ¹	I	II	III	IV	I	II ^p
	Current account	I	II	III	IV	I	II ^p
1	Exports of goods and services and income receipts	117,525	126,812	133,542	135,609	131,405	138,992
2	Exports of goods and services	74,509	80,190	85,150	89,301	89,875	98,324
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	55,754	59,794	62,264	65,250	66,919	73,800
4	Services³	18,755	20,396	22,886	24,051	22,956	24,524
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	178	167	168	197	191	196
6	Travel	4,561	5,756	6,715	6,088	5,355	6,556
7	Passenger fares	1,692	1,616	1,834	2,152	2,037	2,150
8	Other transportation	1,365	1,430	1,535	1,640	1,720	1,861
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	1,567	1,717	1,948	2,219	1,815	1,925
10	Other private services⁵	9,354	9,670	10,642	11,706	11,792	11,784
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	38	39	43	49	47	53
12	Income receipts	43,016	46,622	48,392	46,308	41,530	40,669
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	42,961	46,566	48,336	46,252	41,473	40,612
14	Direct investment receipts	15,193	16,627	17,313	17,555	17,994	19,746
15	Other private receipts	27,726	29,863	30,986	28,616	23,465	20,801
16	U.S. government receipts	42	76	37	81	14	65
17	Compensation of employees	55	56	56	56	57	57
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-132,095	-141,865	-146,131	-148,857	-139,363	-146,237
19	Imports of goods and services	-94,901	-101,318	-105,473	-110,004	-107,728	-117,961
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-79,538	-85,651	-89,544	-93,645	-90,398	-100,785
21	Services³	-15,363	-15,666	-15,929	-16,359	-17,331	-17,176
22	Direct defense expenditures	-74	-101	-92	-75	-86	-100
23	Travel	-6,343	-5,990	-5,903	-6,005	-7,044	-6,521
24	Passenger fares	-700	-753	-923	-1,030	-925	-880
25	Other transportation	-1,498	-1,591	-1,628	-1,622	-1,849	-1,976
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-115	-102	-114	-101	-99	-103
27	Other private services⁵	-6,492	-6,989	-7,118	-7,383	-7,174	-7,440
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-140	-140	-151	-143	-153	-155
29	Income payments	-37,194	-40,548	-40,658	-38,853	-31,635	-28,276
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-35,538	-38,717	-38,679	-36,834	-29,873	-26,409
31	Direct investment payments	-1,431	-2,569	-1,830	-843	-372	-448
32	Other private payments	-29,603	-31,360	-32,040	-30,863	-24,484	-21,278
33	U.S. government payments	-4,504	-4,788	-4,809	-5,128	-5,017	-4,683
34	Compensation of employees	-1,656	-1,831	-1,979	-2,019	-1,762	-1,867
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	-7,640	-7,332	-7,599	-7,445	-7,459	-7,730
36	U.S. government grants⁴	-664	-418	-710	-511	-464	-617
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-184	-198	-198	-199	-198	-205
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	-6,793	-6,716	-6,691	-6,735	-6,797	-6,908
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	-37	-55	-92	-41	-45	-48
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-91,390	-155,749	19,508	15,856	-43,889	22,438
41	U.S. official reserve assets	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	Gold⁷	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	Special drawing rights	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....
44	Reserve position in the International Monetary Fund	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....
45	Foreign currencies	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....
46	U.S. government assets, other than official reserve assets	120	295	13	574	17	200
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	-101	-88	-50	-61	-38	-31
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	240	247	159	628	73	226
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	-19	136	-96	7	-19	5
50	U.S. private assets	-91,510	-156,044	19,496	15,282	-43,905	22,238
51	Direct investment	-8,043	-5,538	-556	-19,581	-21,738	-7,914
52	Foreign securities	-13,356	-5,716	-35,340	-6,557	-2,456	-7,027
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	-4,672	-88,599	49,148	92,564	32,271	3,379
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	-65,439	-56,191	6,244	-51,144	-51,982	33,800
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	68,848	160,064	113,540	134,279	-23,121	-13,153
56	Foreign official assets in the United States	22,823	33,078	15,640	8,810	8,730	23,053
57	U.S. government securities	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
58	U.S. Treasury securities⁹	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
59	Other¹⁰	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
60	Other U.S. government liabilities¹¹	5	38	28	13	169	6
61	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
62	Other foreign official assets¹²	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
63	Other foreign assets in the United States	46,025	126,986	97,900	125,469	-31,851	-36,206
64	Direct investment	-12,178	4,877	3,245	3,482	6,376	19,504
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	41,343	60,407	-26,689	26,214	-41,089	-12,772
67	U.S. currency	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
68	U.S. liabilities to unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
69	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	5,646	62,146	95,682	78,423	6,046	-51,683
70	Financial derivatives, net	1,190	-786	-2,408	-763	1,816	n.a.
71	Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)¹⁴	43,600	18,911	-110,361	-128,638	80,656	5,738
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-23,785	-25,857	-27,280	-28,394	-23,479	-26,985
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	3,392	4,729	6,957	7,691	5,626	7,348
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-20,392	-21,128	-20,323	-20,703	-17,853	-19,637
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	5,822	6,075	7,734	7,455	9,895	12,393
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	-7,640	-7,332	-7,599	-7,445	-7,459	-7,730
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	-22,210	-22,385	-20,188	-20,693	-15,417	-14,975

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