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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 - Latin America and 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	117,525	126,812	133,542	135,609	131,405	138,622	143,913	128,132
2	Exports of goods and services	74,509	80,190	85,150	89,301	89,875	97,159	103,359	93,220
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	55,754	59,794	62,264	65,250	66,919	73,800	78,732	69,550
4	Services³	18,755	20,396	22,886	24,051	22,956	23,360	24,627	23,670
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	178	167	168	197	191	162	167	201
6	Travel	4,561	5,756	6,715	6,088	5,355	6,135	7,211	6,417
7	Passenger fares	1,692	1,616	1,834	2,152	2,037	1,963	2,113	2,236
8	Other transportation	1,365	1,430	1,535	1,640	1,720	1,912	2,036	1,696
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	1,567	1,717	1,948	2,219	1,815	1,826	1,707	1,835
10	Other private services⁵	9,354	9,670	10,642	11,706	11,792	11,308	11,340	11,233
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	38	39	43	49	47	53	53	52
12	Income receipts	43,016	46,622	48,392	46,308	41,530	41,463	40,554	34,912
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	42,961	46,566	48,336	46,252	41,473	41,406	40,497	34,855
14	Direct investment receipts	15,193	16,627	17,313	17,555	17,994	20,493	18,888	14,347
15	Other private receipts	27,726	29,863	30,986	28,616	23,465	20,857	21,597	20,445
16	U.S. government receipts	42	76	37	81	14	56	12	62
17	Compensation of employees	55	56	56	56	57	57	57	57
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-132,095	-141,865	-146,131	-148,857	-139,363	-147,277	-151,941	-125,578
19	Imports of goods and services	-94,901	-101,318	-105,473	-110,004	-107,728	-118,844	-122,624	-99,828
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-79,538	-85,651	-89,544	-93,645	-90,398	-100,785	-104,707	-82,747
21	Services³	-15,363	-15,666	-15,929	-16,359	-17,331	-18,059	-17,918	-17,081
22	Direct defense expenditures	-74	-101	-92	-75	-86	-84	-115	-91
23	Travel	-6,343	-5,990	-5,903	-6,005	-7,044	-6,564	-6,562	-5,912
24	Passenger fares	-700	-753	-923	-1,030	-925	-866	-934	-1,127
25	Other transportation	-1,498	-1,591	-1,628	-1,622	-1,849	-1,976	-2,097	-1,732
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-115	-102	-114	-101	-99	-97	-106	-102
27	Other private services⁵	-6,492	-6,989	-7,118	-7,383	-7,174	-8,319	-7,944	-7,966
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-140	-140	-151	-143	-153	-152	-159	-151
29	Income payments	-37,194	-40,548	-40,658	-38,853	-31,635	-28,433	-29,317	-25,750
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-35,538	-38,717	-38,679	-36,834	-29,873	-26,567	-27,306	-23,667
31	Direct investment payments	-1,431	-2,569	-1,830	-843	-372	-726	-1,205	380
32	Other private payments	-29,603	-31,360	-32,040	-30,863	-24,484	-21,158	-21,594	-19,806
33	U.S. government payments	-4,504	-4,788	-4,809	-5,128	-5,017	-4,683	-4,507	-4,241
34	Compensation of employees	-1,656	-1,831	-1,979	-2,019	-1,762	-1,865	-2,011	-2,083
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	-7,640	-7,332	-7,599	-7,445	-7,459	-8,273	-8,147	-8,329
36	U.S. government grants⁴	-664	-418	-710	-511	-464	-564	-726	-774
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-184	-198	-198	-199	-198	-204	-206	-207
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	-6,793	-6,716	-6,691	-6,735	-6,797	-7,505	-7,215	-7,348
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	-37	-55	-92	-41	-45	-53	-49	-39
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-91,390	-155,749	19,508	15,856	-43,889	14,353	19,992	-79,105
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	120	295	13	574	17	188	34	163
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	-101	-88	-50	-61	-38	-21	-50	-7
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	240	247	159	628	73	187	60	175
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	-19	136	-96	7	-19	22	24	-5
50	U.S. private assets	-91,510	-156,044	19,496	15,282	-43,905	14,165	19,958	-79,268
51	Direct investment	-8,043	-5,538	-556	-19,581	-21,738	-12,534	-7,234	-11,666
52	Foreign securities	-13,356	-5,716	-35,340	-6,557	-2,456	-7,682	-22,340	3,608
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	-4,672	-88,599	49,148	92,564	32,271	4,309	-35,356	37,457
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	-65,439	-56,191	6,244	-51,144	-51,982	30,072	84,888	-108,667
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	68,848	160,064	113,540	134,279	-23,121	-36,298	19,929	9,513
56	Foreign official assets in the United States	22,823	33,078	15,640	8,810	8,730	23,053	-14,247	-9,117
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	5	38	28	13	169	6	47	30
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	46,025	126,986	97,900	125,469	-31,851	-59,351	34,176	18,630
64	Direct investment	-12,178	4,877	3,245	3,482	6,376	18,543	2,911	-621
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	41,343	60,407	-26,689	26,214	-41,089	-12,546	-1,015	-50,207
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	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
69	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	5,646	62,146	95,682	78,423	6,046	-74,191	-44,859	54,623
70	Financial derivatives, net	1,190	-786	-2,408	-763	1,816	4,441	10,332	n.a.
71	Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)¹⁴	43,600	18,911	-110,361	-128,638	80,656	34,484	-34,030	75,406
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-23,785	-25,857	-27,280	-28,394	-23,479	-26,985	-25,974	-13,197
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	3,392	4,729	6,957	7,691	5,626	5,301	6,709	6,590
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-20,392	-21,128	-20,323	-20,703	-17,853	-21,685	-19,265	-6,608
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	5,822	6,075	7,734	7,455	9,895	13,030	11,237	9,161
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	-7,640	-7,332	-7,599	-7,445	-7,459	-8,273	-8,147	-8,329
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	-22,210	-22,385	-20,188	-20,693	-15,417	-16,927	-16,174	-5,775

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