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Today's Date: May 7, 2009 Release Date: March 18, 2009 Next Release Date: June 17, 2009
Earliest Quarter Revised on March 18, 2009: 2008:III

Table 12. U.S. International Transactions, by Area - 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	III	IV ^p
	Current account	I	II	III	IV	I	II	III	IV ^p
1	Exports of goods and services and income receipts	44,044	46,835	48,842	47,908	43,298	42,620	42,253	38,134
2	Exports of goods and services	10,500	11,186	12,468	13,822	13,464	13,538	13,990	12,452
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	4,430	4,551	4,842	6,082	5,821	6,086	6,413	5,611
4	Services³	6,070	6,635	7,626	7,741	7,643	7,452	7,577	6,841
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	9	8	9	8	9	9	8	22
6	Travel	557	863	1,361	797	591	799	1,417	876
7	Passenger fares	210	215	316	280	171	233	338	295
8	Other transportation	287	306	302	338	408	460	487	395
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	542	588	569	732	494	465	376	391
10	Other private services⁵	4,456	4,645	5,060	5,577	5,961	5,479	4,942	4,854
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	9	9	10	9	9	9	9	9
12	Income receipts	33,544	35,649	36,374	34,085	29,834	29,082	28,263	25,682
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	33,537	35,642	36,367	34,078	29,827	29,075	28,256	25,674
14	Direct investment receipts	8,782	9,104	8,990	9,078	9,841	11,602	10,154	8,506
15	Other private receipts	24,734	26,531	27,373	24,988	19,982	17,467	18,099	17,162
16	U.S. government receipts	21	7	4	12	4	6	3	6
17	Compensation of employees	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-42,389	-44,856	-44,636	-43,861	-37,584	-35,017	-35,553	-31,187
19	Imports of goods and services	-11,812	-12,193	-12,064	-12,256	-12,484	-13,440	-13,535	-12,030
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-4,611	-4,860	-4,612	-4,675	-4,721	-4,961	-5,269	-4,153
21	Services³	-7,201	-7,333	-7,453	-7,581	-7,763	-8,479	-8,266	-7,877
22	Direct defense expenditures	-7	-14	-10	-6	-8	-7	-19	-6
23	Travel	-1,511	-1,441	-1,407	-1,326	-1,621	-1,530	-1,628	-1,342
24	Passenger fares	-135	-159	-204	-175	-183	-182	-205	-197
25	Other transportation	-702	-747	-777	-746	-787	-850	-928	-797
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-75	-65	-68	-63	-65	-67	-54	-54
27	Other private services⁵	-4,747	-4,884	-4,963	-5,246	-5,074	-5,819	-5,408	-5,464
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-24	-22	-24	-19	-24	-25	-25	-17
29	Income payments	-30,577	-32,664	-32,572	-31,605	-25,100	-21,577	-22,018	-19,157
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-30,558	-32,642	-32,534	-31,560	-25,082	-21,561	-21,990	-19,118
31	Direct investment payments	-785	-1,234	-732	-709	-297	-362	-447	761
32	Other private payments	-27,295	-28,977	-29,543	-28,453	-22,641	-19,483	-19,832	-18,174
33	U.S. government payments	-2,478	-2,431	-2,259	-2,398	-2,144	-1,716	-1,711	-1,705
34	Compensation of employees	-19	-22	-38	-45	-18	-16	-27	-39
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	-1,167	-1,010	-916	-1,095	-965	-1,448	-830	-924
36	U.S. government grants⁴	-79	-89	-87	-64	-62	-88	-87	-107
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-31	-33	-33	-33	-32	-34	-33	-33
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	-1,057	-888	-796	-998	-871	-1,326	-710	-784
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	1	1	*()**	1	-1	1	1	1
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-83,390	-139,081	44,209	25,202	-49,050	30,419	24,418	-84,081
41	U.S. official reserve assets	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	Gold⁷	0	0	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	2	33	20	-8	4	22	15	20
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	-84	0	-5	-53	0	(*)	-2	0
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	88	31	27	44	5	18	15	20
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	-2	2	-2	1	-1	4	2	0
50	U.S. private assets	-83,392	-139,114	44,189	25,210	-49,054	30,398	24,403	-84,101
51	Direct investment	-2,544	-330	5,584	-12,734	-15,451	-7,031	538	-5,308
52	Foreign securities	-15,430	24	-32,607	-6,121	-16,127	-9,634	-22,609	-2,107
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	-4,203	-89,116	49,481	93,231	32,992	5,939	-35,283	36,425
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	-61,215	-49,692	21,731	-49,166	-50,468	41,124	81,757	-113,111
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	38,832	118,806	90,557	110,300	-48,610	-62,896	31,661	21,132
56	Foreign official assets in the United States	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
57	U.S. government securities	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
58	U.S. Treasury securities⁹	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
59	Other¹⁰	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
60	Other U.S. government liabilities¹¹	-1	0	2	1	-1	0	0	0
61	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
62	Other foreign official assets¹²	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
63	Other foreign assets in the United States	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
64	Direct investment	-13,683	4,094	2,396	5,381	4,064	15,527	1,481	965
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	39,412	57,388	-29,501	25,338	-44,347	-13,960	-3,910	-49,226
67	U.S. currency	n.a.	n.a.	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	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
69	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	¹⁸ 13,104	¹⁸ 57,324	¹⁸ 117,660	¹⁸ 79,580	¹⁸ -8,326	¹⁸ -64,463	¹⁸ 34,090	¹⁸ 69,393
70	Financial derivatives, net	1,995	-1,271	-3,754	1,580	2,146	4,198	10,475	n.a.
71	Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)¹⁴	42,073	20,577	-134,302	-140,034	90,766	22,122	-72,424	56,925
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-182	-309	230	1,407	1,100	1,124	1,144	1,458
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	-1,130	-698	174	160	-120	-1,027	-689	-1,036
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-1,312	-1,007	404	1,567	980	98	455	422
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	2,967	2,985	3,802	2,480	4,734	7,505	6,245	6,525
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	-1,167	-1,010	-916	-1,095	-965	-1,448	-830	-924
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	489	968	3,290	2,952	4,749	6,155	5,870	6,023

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