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Today's Date: November 5, 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 - Asia and Pacific 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	126,907	133,254	142,455	146,892	147,450	152,891
2	Exports of goods and services	100,507	104,727	111,477	115,518	117,468	122,524
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	71,055	75,459	78,121	83,613	83,794	88,696
4	Services³	29,452	29,268	33,355	31,906	33,675	33,828
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	1,164	1,172	883	991	1,409	931
6	Travel	5,444	6,633	7,899	5,408	6,221	7,970
7	Passenger fares	1,455	1,428	1,614	1,728	1,715	2,035
8	Other transportation	4,035	4,260	4,493	4,931	4,969	5,509
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	4,314	4,561	5,099	5,309	4,880	5,128
10	Other private services⁵	12,922	11,107	13,259	13,408	14,355	12,136
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	118	108	109	130	126	120
12	Income receipts	26,400	28,527	30,979	31,373	29,982	30,368
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	26,301	28,428	30,880	31,273	29,878	30,263
14	Direct investment receipts	15,298	16,731	18,637	19,405	18,101	19,309
15	Other private receipts	10,892	11,544	12,144	11,719	11,687	10,840
16	U.S. government receipts	111	153	99	149	90	114
17	Compensation of employees	99	99	99	100	104	104
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-228,779	-238,294	-251,590	-255,581	-236,734	-244,964
19	Imports of goods and services	-189,771	-196,602	-209,665	-213,384	-197,468	-206,742
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-168,232	-174,048	-186,964	-189,318	-172,693	-181,269
21	Services³	-21,539	-22,554	-22,701	-24,067	-24,775	-25,473
22	Direct defense expenditures	-1,455	-1,609	-1,507	-1,731	-1,691	-1,741
23	Travel	-3,909	-4,246	-3,740	-4,541	-4,576	-4,683
24	Passenger fares	-2,357	-2,364	-2,332	-2,549	-2,948	-2,758
25	Other transportation	-5,490	-5,844	-6,083	-5,987	-6,025	-6,404
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-2,169	-2,017	-2,021	-2,109	-2,082	-2,110
27	Other private services⁵	-5,987	-6,311	-6,840	-6,976	-7,262	-7,609
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-172	-163	-178	-174	-191	-168
29	Income payments	-39,008	-41,692	-41,924	-42,196	-39,266	-38,222
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-38,624	-41,440	-41,718	-41,828	-38,891	-37,974
31	Direct investment payments	-6,023	-7,123	-6,964	-6,816	-4,646	-3,693
32	Other private payments	-8,414	-8,718	-9,244	-9,839	-9,443	-9,363
33	U.S. government payments	-24,187	-25,599	-25,510	-25,173	-24,802	-24,918
34	Compensation of employees	-384	-252	-206	-368	-375	-248
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	-5,301	-3,721	-5,014	-6,921	-6,142	-5,816
36	U.S. government grants⁴	-1,972	-1,232	-1,823	-4,223	-2,097	-2,354
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-228	-228	-226	-231	-235	-239
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	-3,101	-2,261	-2,965	-2,467	-3,809	-3,223
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	-239	-245	-251	-257	-263	-268
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-8,652	-30,259	28,982	-7,312	-11,556	-2,050
41	U.S. official reserve assets	-17	-25	-28	-23	-43	-27
42	Gold⁷	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	Special drawing rights	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....
44	Reserve position in the International Monetary Fund	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....
45	Foreign currencies	-17	-25	-28	-23	-43	-27
46	U.S. government assets, other than official reserve assets	85	134	347	253	122	103
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	-144	-61	-16	-16	-43	-71
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	239	198	343	279	170	176
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	-10	-3	20	-10	-5	-2
50	U.S. private assets	-8,721	-30,368	28,663	-7,542	-11,635	-2,126
51	Direct investment	-18,017	-15,325	-15,184	-5,831	-11,340	-16,009
52	Foreign securities	-3,966	-3,860	2,677	15,552	-3,247	8,639
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	-2,293	-2,627	-748	101	10,435	-893
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	15,555	-8,556	41,918	-17,364	-7,483	6,137
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	110,157	151,481	21,071	124,136	164,831	134,413
56	Foreign official assets in the United States	108,755	63,499	-15,388	73,923	98,624	85,030
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	994	254	1,088	3,512	1,104	1,245
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	1,402	87,982	36,459	50,213	66,207	49,383
64	Direct investment	8,819	12,169	13,160	15,013	15,487	17,185
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	4,194	40,156	11,069	22,326	17,519	14,740
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	-5,554	25,324	34,894	13,320	-4,698	21,825
70	Financial derivatives, net	-605	-944	-1,475	-1,453	-5,003	n.a.
71	Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)¹⁴	6,512	-11,273	65,821	496	-52,583	-34,205
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-97,177	-98,590	-108,843	-105,705	-88,899	-92,573
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	7,913	6,715	10,654	7,839	8,899	8,355
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-89,264	-91,875	-98,189	-97,866	-80,000	-84,218
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	-12,609	-13,165	-10,945	-10,823	-9,284	-7,854
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	-5,301	-3,721	-5,014	-6,921	-6,142	-5,816
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	-107,173	-108,760	-114,149	-115,610	-95,426	-97,889

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