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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 - Members of OPEC 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	17,356	19,185	21,920	25,420	23,455	25,929	29,191	28,910
2	Exports of goods and services	14,073	15,456	17,818	21,186	19,008	21,397	24,485	25,435
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	9,694	10,683	12,404	15,875	13,625	15,514	17,992	19,357
4	Services³	4,378	4,772	5,413	5,310	5,383	5,882	6,493	6,078
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	1,086	826	804	724	808	579	588	548
6	Travel	549	702	1,076	786	855	997	1,476	1,002
7	Passenger fares	138	144	202	273	300	302	412	361
8	Other transportation	381	439	503	547	610	626	654	576
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	171	246	258	267	255	297	312	342
10	Other private services⁵	2,041	2,405	2,561	2,702	2,548	3,075	3,044	3,240
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	11	8	8	10	7	8	8	8
12	Income receipts	3,283	3,729	4,102	4,234	4,447	4,533	4,705	3,476
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	3,262	3,707	4,081	4,213	4,426	4,512	4,684	3,455
14	Direct investment receipts	2,744	3,133	3,521	3,635	3,976	4,086	4,273	3,077
15	Other private receipts	467	521	536	520	430	379	392	336
16	U.S. government receipts	51	53	23	57	20	46	19	41
17	Compensation of employees	20	21	21	21	21	21	21	21
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-41,933	-50,065	-53,787	-59,061	-64,618	-75,655	-82,127	-50,910
19	Imports of goods and services	-38,454	-45,423	-49,588	-55,194	-60,738	-72,095	-78,388	-47,456
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-35,087	-41,821	-45,873	-51,557	-56,772	-67,976	-74,267	-43,600
21	Services³	-3,366	-3,601	-3,714	-3,636	-3,966	-4,119	-4,121	-3,856
22	Direct defense expenditures	-2,684	-2,780	-2,863	-2,692	-2,737	-2,819	-2,785	-2,604
23	Travel	-176	-228	-255	-280	-407	-431	-445	-410
24	Passenger fares	-83	-87	-76	-118	-215	-178	-211	-207
25	Other transportation	-154	-179	-193	-195	-219	-261	-281	-249
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-3	-2	-1	-6	-2	-2	-15	-14
27	Other private services⁵	-253	-312	-314	-332	-374	-417	-373	-359
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-11	-11	-11	-11	-11	-11	-11	-12
29	Income payments	-3,478	-4,642	-4,199	-3,867	-3,880	-3,560	-3,739	-3,455
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-3,461	-4,632	-4,178	-3,843	-3,861	-3,548	-3,720	-3,427
31	Direct investment payments	-105	-994	-514	-129	-333	-143	-313	-164
32	Other private payments	-1,701	-1,747	-1,730	-1,786	-1,691	-1,624	-1,795	-1,687
33	U.S. government payments	-1,655	-1,891	-1,934	-1,928	-1,837	-1,781	-1,612	-1,576
34	Compensation of employees	-17	-10	-20	-24	-19	-12	-19	-27
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	-2,296	-1,842	-1,546	-1,758	-1,672	-2,050	-2,198	-879
36	U.S. government grants⁴	-2,132	-1,579	-1,294	-1,517	-1,337	-1,605	-1,799	-1,764
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-10	-8	-8	-13	-18	-28	-12	-19
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	-154	-255	-243	-228	-317	-417	-387	904
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	-38	-39	-39	-40	-41	-41	-41	-42
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-4,542	-4,254	1,037	-6,355	11,245	-5,705	1,632	-519
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	-17	110	61	138	73	129	43	125
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	-109	-5	-9	-3	-8	-6	-7	-6
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	95	113	69	141	95	123	63	144
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	-4	2	1	0	-14	12	-13	-13
50	U.S. private assets	-4,524	-4,365	976	-6,494	11,172	-5,833	1,589	-644
51	Direct investment	-1,595	-224	-1,287	-202	-1,754	-1,334	-2,776	-2,852
52	Foreign securities	-1,503	-734	2,064	2,636	3,507	-5,581	3,813	1,248
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	183	-1,221	607	-388	465	-152	-691	-394
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	-1,609	-2,186	-407	-8,540	8,954	1,234	1,243	1,354
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	14,173	14,068	4,470	20,806	20,752	30,556	18,049	991
56	Foreign official assets in the United States	10,329	-248	1,374	15,901	17,766	15,838	17,710	-2,806
57	U.S. government securities	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
58	U.S. Treasury securities⁹	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
59	Other¹⁰	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
60	Other U.S. government liabilities¹¹	215	-207	-60	330	257	1,181	218	183
61	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
62	Other foreign official assets¹²	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
63	Other foreign assets in the United States	3,844	14,316	3,096	4,905	2,986	14,718	339	3,797
64	Direct investment	-218	1,926	1,174	-948	2,294	1,262	-1,314	-1,333
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	2,904	2,806	1,682	2,192	92	4,397	-154	-639
67	U.S. currency	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
68	U.S. liabilities to unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
69	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	-1,397	3,956	-1,226	4,146	-3,670	1,847	-1,107	2,003
70	Financial derivatives, net	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)
71	Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)¹⁴	17,280	22,948	27,944	20,989	10,878	26,967	35,495	22,448
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-25,392	-31,137	-33,468	-35,682	-43,147	-52,462	-56,275	-24,243
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	1,011	1,170	1,698	1,674	1,417	1,763	2,373	2,222
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-24,380	-29,966	-31,769	-34,008	-41,730	-50,699	-53,902	-22,021
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	-195	-913	-97	366	567	973	966	21
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	-2,296	-1,842	-1,546	-1,758	-1,672	-2,050	-2,198	-879
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	-26,873	-32,723	-33,413	-35,399	-42,835	-51,777	-55,134	-22,879

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