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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 - Africa 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	9,540	9,037	11,439	11,335	11,543	12,044
2	Exports of goods and services	7,766	7,274	9,365	9,223	9,359	9,438
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	5,346	4,837	6,274	6,509	6,533	6,708
4	Services³	2,420	2,437	3,091	2,714	2,826	2,730
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	392	213	439	248	326	198
6	Travel	238	375	476	308	290	450
7	Passenger fares	47	61	77	82	77	87
8	Other transportation	242	287	308	348	298	345
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	163	234	258	296	212	227
10	Other private services⁵	1,316	1,246	1,511	1,409	1,601	1,406
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	22	21	22	23	22	17
12	Income receipts	1,774	1,763	2,074	2,112	2,184	2,606
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	1,755	1,744	2,055	2,093	2,164	2,586
14	Direct investment receipts	1,360	1,365	1,622	1,683	1,630	2,083
15	Other private receipts	331	351	365	382	477	482
16	U.S. government receipts	64	28	68	28	57	21
17	Compensation of employees	19	19	19	19	20	20
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-21,554	-24,825	-26,095	-27,314	-29,222	-35,556
19	Imports of goods and services	-21,094	-24,310	-25,604	-26,814	-28,712	-35,050
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-19,779	-22,793	-24,053	-25,379	-27,319	-33,398
21	Services³	-1,315	-1,517	-1,551	-1,435	-1,393	-1,652
22	Direct defense expenditures	-82	-89	-95	-94	-120	-100
23	Travel	-471	-613	-648	-508	-428	-676
24	Passenger fares	-62	-70	-78	-83	-100	-84
25	Other transportation	-113	-112	-109	-111	-125	-149
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-4	-11	-6	-8	-12	-12
27	Other private services⁵	-520	-560	-547	-566	-543	-572
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-63	-61	-68	-65	-66	-58
29	Income payments	-460	-515	-490	-500	-510	-506
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-429	-498	-477	-470	-479	-489
31	Direct investment payments	-29	-32	14	22	4	-11
32	Other private payments	-234	-259	-268	-258	-243	-211
33	U.S. government payments	-166	-207	-223	-234	-240	-267
34	Compensation of employees	-31	-17	-13	-31	-31	-17
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	-3,201	-1,816	-1,997	-1,867	-3,670	-2,018
36	U.S. government grants⁴	-2,280	-873	-975	-825	-2,431	-791
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-24	-8	-8	-8	-8	-8
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	-897	-935	-1,014	-1,034	-1,231	-1,219
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	-10	-45	-15	-11	-12	-15
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-1,282	-268	-1,460	-3,736	-8,699	-2,352
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	54	6	91	-25	54	-10
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	-61	-67	-64	-58	-65	-81
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	123	79	147	49	120	67
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	-8	-6	8	-16	-1	4
50	U.S. private assets	-1,336	-274	-1,551	-3,711	-8,753	-2,342
51	Direct investment	-1,995	-380	-593	965	-547	1,382
52	Foreign securities	146	-129	-567	1,644	287	-835
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	-91	-42	-1	-35	-508	-111
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	604	277	-390	-6,285	-7,985	-2,778
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	1,230	6,475	-2,455	10,061	8,325	9,711
56	Foreign official assets in the United States	1,735	4,168	-593	1,666	1,645	3,585
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	-367	-115	-192	27	97	36
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	-505	2,307	-1,862	8,395	6,680	6,126
64	Direct investment	-136	77	-725	110	883	-210
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	-93	-231	-217	-298	-2,658	-422
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	3	1,375	-1,310	7,637	5,806	4,609
70	Financial derivatives, net	-263	-212	329	-121	-146	n.a.
71	Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)¹⁴	15,542	11,653	20,254	11,653	21,881	18,187
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-14,434	-17,956	-17,779	-18,870	-20,786	-26,690
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	1,105	920	1,540	1,279	1,433	1,077
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-13,328	-17,036	-16,239	-17,590	-19,353	-25,613
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	1,314	1,248	1,584	1,611	1,674	2,100
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	-3,201	-1,816	-1,997	-1,867	-3,670	-2,018
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	-15,216	-17,604	-16,652	-17,846	-21,349	-25,530

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