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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 - European Union ¹⁵ 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	180,834	194,172	200,432	204,460	198,347	204,849
2	Exports of goods and services	101,278	105,258	107,658	110,545	113,638	121,795
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	60,675	60,850	58,654	62,065	68,047	72,622
4	Services³	40,603	44,408	49,004	48,479	45,591	49,172
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	872	836	724	585	772	485
6	Travel	5,479	7,163	9,199	7,171	6,702	8,605
7	Passenger fares	1,319	1,664	2,173	2,349	1,903	2,358
8	Other transportation	4,039	4,216	4,285	4,675	4,464	4,805
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	8,735	9,226	10,089	10,722	9,804	10,355
10	Other private services⁵	20,098	21,247	22,467	22,919	21,888	22,503
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	60	56	67	57	58	62
12	Income receipts	79,556	88,914	92,774	93,915	84,709	83,055
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	79,467	88,824	92,683	93,823	84,616	82,959
14	Direct investment receipts	32,962	37,569	38,063	40,317	37,845	39,372
15	Other private receipts	46,260	51,047	54,382	53,253	46,301	43,141
16	U.S. government receipts	245	208	238	253	470	446
17	Compensation of employees	89	90	91	92	94	95
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-189,413	-215,750	-209,434	-202,954	-190,954	-215,105
19	Imports of goods and services	-115,758	-128,191	-128,575	-129,451	-123,695	-139,397
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-83,514	-90,087	-89,197	-93,382	-89,614	-97,947
21	Services³	-32,244	-38,104	-39,378	-36,069	-34,082	-41,449
22	Direct defense expenditures	-2,616	-2,669	-2,727	-3,103	-3,032	-2,998
23	Travel	-3,509	-7,197	-7,178	-4,069	-3,551	-7,936
24	Passenger fares	-2,639	-3,928	-3,939	-2,779	-2,773	-4,554
25	Other transportation	-5,171	-5,754	-6,060	-5,872	-5,856	-6,626
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-2,938	-2,817	-2,861	-3,289	-3,079	-3,125
27	Other private services⁵	-14,999	-15,375	-16,211	-16,551	-15,397	-15,808
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-372	-364	-402	-405	-393	-403
29	Income payments	-73,655	-87,559	-80,859	-73,503	-67,259	-75,709
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-73,521	-87,449	-80,755	-73,370	-67,123	-75,593
31	Direct investment payments	-18,213	-26,000	-17,270	-11,200	-10,941	-23,288
32	Other private payments	-49,984	-55,797	-57,137	-54,898	-48,588	-44,617
33	U.S. government payments	-5,324	-5,652	-6,348	-7,272	-7,594	-7,688
34	Compensation of employees	-134	-110	-104	-133	-137	-115
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	-1,700	-801	-1,686	-525	-2,244	-1,611
36	U.S. government grants⁴	-34	-40	-38	-43	-64	-46
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-396	-418	-422	-425	-424	-434
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	-1,270	-343	-1,226	-57	-1,756	-1,131
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	-115	378	-118	-120	-121	-122
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-284,808	-292,561	-194,681	-96,072	-191,818	23,999
41	U.S. official reserve assets	-179	-152	-163	-185	-249	-194
42	Gold⁷	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	Special drawing rights	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....
44	Reserve position in the International Monetary Fund	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....
45	Foreign currencies	-179	-152	-163	-185	-249	-194
46	U.S. government assets, other than official reserve assets	34	16	14	-19,984	5,021	-34,989
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	-51	-61	-21	-74	-3	0
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	88	68	47	82	31	7
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	-3	9	-12	-19,992	4,993	-34,996
50	U.S. private assets	-284,663	-292,425	-194,531	-75,903	-196,590	59,182
51	Direct investment	-25,518	-63,927	-34,781	-51,249	-43,228	-36,478
52	Foreign securities	-85,477	-72,406	-67,184	-10,388	-31,740	-30,876
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	-41,853	-38,607	28,836	11,163	36,931	23,245
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	-131,815	-117,485	-121,402	-25,429	-158,553	103,291
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	456,991	382,084	138,529	41,421	222,597	-186,644
56	Foreign official assets in the United States	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
57	U.S. government securities	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
58	U.S. Treasury securities⁹	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
59	Other¹⁰	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
60	Other U.S. government liabilities¹¹	-359	-249	-227	67	-48	169
61	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
62	Other foreign official assets¹²	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
63	Other foreign assets in the United States	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
64	Direct investment	9,726	42,566	74,635	21,491	35,491	43,033
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	128,597	200,312	-20,056	44,161	-8,250	-6,168
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	89,495	75,910	51,121	-98,652	79,370	-54,517
69	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	¹⁸ 229,532	¹⁸ 63,545	¹⁸ 33,056	¹⁸ 74,354	¹⁸ 116,034	¹⁸ -169,161
70	Financial derivatives, net	7,958	2,187	8,190	-8,317	-2,941	n.a.
71	Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)¹⁴	-169,748	-69,708	58,768	62,108	-32,866	174,635
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-22,839	-29,237	-30,543	-31,317	-21,567	-25,325
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	8,359	6,304	9,626	12,411	11,510	7,723
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-14,480	-22,933	-20,917	-18,906	-10,057	-17,602
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	5,901	1,355	11,915	20,412	17,450	7,346
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	-1,700	-801	-1,686	-525	-2,244	-1,611
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	-10,278	-22,379	-10,688	981	5,149	-11,868

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