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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 - Middle East 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	15,706	16,412	19,163	22,292	19,908	21,350
2	Exports of goods and services	13,502	13,849	16,472	19,271	16,956	18,119
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	8,789	9,168	11,202	14,488	12,110	13,104
4	Services³	4,714	4,681	5,269	4,783	4,846	5,015
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	1,635	1,284	1,207	1,142	1,176	1,152
6	Travel	463	597	884	488	518	717
7	Passenger fares	81	71	89	85	83	105
8	Other transportation	520	584	637	662	761	812
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	181	195	236	226	238	255
10	Other private services⁵	1,816	1,934	2,199	2,162	2,053	1,955
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	18	17	17	18	16	19
12	Income receipts	2,204	2,563	2,691	3,021	2,953	3,232
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	2,179	2,538	2,666	2,996	2,927	3,206
14	Direct investment receipts	1,476	1,807	1,902	2,252	2,293	2,637
15	Other private receipts	679	716	740	722	618	553
16	U.S. government receipts	24	15	24	22	16	16
17	Compensation of employees	25	25	25	25	26	26
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-23,293	-27,503	-29,060	-30,649	-34,809	-37,892
19	Imports of goods and services	-20,023	-23,691	-25,534	-27,477	-31,465	-35,409
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-15,392	-18,868	-20,498	-22,646	-26,232	-30,038
21	Services³	-4,631	-4,823	-5,036	-4,831	-5,233	-5,371
22	Direct defense expenditures	-3,304	-3,214	-3,300	-3,213	-3,421	-3,500
23	Travel	-289	-459	-505	-404	-463	-506
24	Passenger fares	-138	-191	-236	-192	-299	-224
25	Other transportation	-291	-306	-322	-322	-328	-381
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-62	-47	-35	-67	-48	-49
27	Other private services⁵	-489	-550	-578	-577	-618	-648
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-58	-56	-60	-56	-57	-63
29	Income payments	-3,270	-3,812	-3,525	-3,172	-3,344	-2,484
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-3,249	-3,800	-3,516	-3,154	-3,326	-2,472
31	Direct investment payments	-118	-445	-205	206	-108	628
32	Other private payments	-1,532	-1,566	-1,530	-1,600	-1,535	-1,503
33	U.S. government payments	-1,599	-1,789	-1,781	-1,760	-1,683	-1,597
34	Compensation of employees	-21	-12	-9	-18	-18	-11
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	-4,807	-2,231	-2,123	-2,883	-4,038	-2,106
36	U.S. government grants⁴	-4,148	-1,632	-1,453	-2,263	-3,456	-1,524
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-33	-32	-32	-37	-38	-39
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	-626	-567	-638	-583	-544	-543
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	-85	-86	-87	-88	-90	-129
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-3,031	-4,778	2,390	-7,855	8,955	2,869
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	29	40	32	24	35	368
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	-14	-9	-13	-14	-5	-5
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	41	46	45	41	52	356
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	2	3	(*)	-3	-12	17
50	U.S. private assets	-3,060	-4,818	2,358	-7,879	8,920	2,501
51	Direct investment	-1,729	-421	-540	-992	-2,252	-240
52	Foreign securities	-42	259	1,264	292	1,188	2,116
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	19	-1,178	569	-302	516	-41
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	-1,308	-3,478	1,065	-6,877	9,468	666
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	14,630	5,253	2,721	16,045	26,173	21,188
56	Foreign official assets in the United States	10,938	-5,094	-1,120	13,849	21,628	9,998
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	-38	-153	-49	251	235	1,030
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	3,692	10,347	3,841	2,196	4,545	11,190
64	Direct investment	-43	1,234	1,077	880	1,932	1,060
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	3,116	2,811	1,234	2,866	2,094	4,682
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	-1,361	2,452	150	-733	-2,838	2,704
70	Financial derivatives, net	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	n.a.
71	Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)¹⁴	879	12,933	6,995	3,139	-16,099	-5,279
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-6,604	-9,701	-9,296	-8,158	-14,122	-16,934
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	83	-142	233	-48	-388	-356
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-6,521	-9,842	-9,063	-8,206	-14,510	-17,290
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	-1,066	-1,249	-834	-151	-392	748
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	-4,807	-2,231	-2,123	-2,883	-4,038	-2,106
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	-12,394	-13,322	-12,020	-11,241	-18,939	-18,648

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