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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 - Japan 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	32,255	32,004	32,891	33,194	34,039	34,809	35,092	32,057
2	Exports of goods and services	25,129	24,883	25,717	26,322	26,873	27,739	28,533	25,440
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	15,098	15,450	14,751	15,599	16,127	17,285	17,318	14,617
4	Services³	10,032	9,433	10,965	10,724	10,746	10,454	11,215	10,823
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	289	124	117	233	110	128	133	139
6	Travel	2,621	2,548	3,381	2,469	2,797	2,631	3,142	2,715
7	Passenger fares	912	698	866	975	955	792	1,020	1,028
8	Other transportation	964	987	995	1,112	1,114	1,176	1,187	980
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	1,818	1,727	1,842	2,013	1,814	1,891	1,814	1,926
10	Other private services⁵	3,387	3,309	3,730	3,873	3,910	3,803	3,884	3,993
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	40	40	34	50	46	34	36	42
12	Income receipts	7,126	7,121	7,174	6,871	7,166	7,070	6,558	6,617
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	7,106	7,101	7,154	6,850	7,145	7,049	6,537	6,596
14	Direct investment receipts	2,009	1,952	2,151	2,201	2,659	2,771	2,132	1,726
15	Other private receipts	5,080	5,124	4,975	4,626	4,442	4,251	4,366	4,642
16	U.S. government receipts	17	25	28	23	44	27	39	228
17	Compensation of employees	20	20	20	21	21	21	22	22
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-59,564	-59,576	-60,433	-62,182	-59,994	-58,076	-54,718	-49,610
19	Imports of goods and services	-42,525	-42,196	-42,840	-44,679	-44,167	-43,523	-41,114	-38,132
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-36,238	-35,634	-36,310	-37,855	-37,492	-36,384	-34,321	-31,481
21	Services³	-6,288	-6,563	-6,530	-6,824	-6,675	-7,140	-6,793	-6,652
22	Direct defense expenditures	-394	-407	-390	-414	-473	-444	-464	-450
23	Travel	-712	-878	-874	-915	-833	-1,071	-1,024	-927
24	Passenger fares	-273	-327	-293	-387	-370	-330	-356	-433
25	Other transportation	-1,563	-1,654	-1,712	-1,704	-1,694	-1,846	-1,934	-1,657
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-1,910	-1,806	-1,809	-1,890	-1,860	-1,915	-1,492	-1,662
27	Other private services⁵	-1,403	-1,457	-1,418	-1,486	-1,397	-1,504	-1,493	-1,492
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-33	-34	-34	-28	-48	-30	-30	-30
29	Income payments	-17,039	-17,379	-17,593	-17,503	-15,827	-14,553	-13,604	-11,478
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-17,001	-17,353	-17,571	-17,464	-15,787	-14,526	-13,581	-11,437
31	Direct investment payments	-4,180	-4,186	-4,489	-4,320	-2,931	-1,808	-1,235	526
32	Other private payments	-3,099	-3,180	-3,347	-3,697	-3,640	-3,706	-4,001	-4,054
33	U.S. government payments	-9,722	-9,987	-9,735	-9,447	-9,216	-9,012	-8,345	-7,909
34	Compensation of employees	-38	-26	-22	-40	-40	-27	-23	-41
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	188	461	227	284	-270	50	26	41
36	U.S. government grants⁴	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-66	-72	-67	-68	-68	-68	-69	-69
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	254	533	294	352	-202	118	95	110
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	15,630	-11,916	28,111	16,739	-9,591	3,107	-9,845	-77,818
41	U.S. official reserve assets	-17	-25	-28	-23	-43	-27	-40	-32
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	-17	-25	-28	-23	-43	-27	-40	-32
46	U.S. government assets, other than official reserve assets	-5	2	-1	(*)	-20	18	-29,622	-93,090
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	-5	2	-1	(*)	-20	18	-29,622	-93,090
50	U.S. private assets	15,652	-11,893	28,140	16,761	-9,528	3,116	19,817	15,304
51	Direct investment	-1,510	-11,407	-1,826	-843	-987	-2,996	5,513	2,688
52	Foreign securities	-3,780	-5,367	2,692	10,513	3,043	2,406	7,625	5,264
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	-569	-466	309	-1,158	-101	-58	45	-1,776
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	21,511	5,347	26,965	8,249	-11,483	3,764	6,634	9,128
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	-6,309	39,487	3,752	31,271	50,620	33,367	9,858	39,846
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	-118	58	27	105	103	82	-21	78
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	7,739	6,110	8,567	6,359	5,763	15,758	554	7,869
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	-6,058	10,668	2,883	16,183	18,662	8,001	-13,790	4,605
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	965	80	379	-73	1,270	-1,067	1,429	-1,336
69	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	¹⁸ -8,837	¹⁸ 22,571	¹⁸ -8,104	¹⁸ 8,697	¹⁸ 24,822	¹⁸ 10,593	¹⁸ 21,686	¹⁸ 28,630
70	Financial derivatives, net	-14	-936	511	-2,051	-4,730	2,998	-2,784	n.a.
71	Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)¹⁴	17,813	474	-5,060	-17,255	-10,076	-16,256	22,371	55,483
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-21,140	-20,184	-21,559	-22,256	-21,365	-19,099	-17,003	-16,863
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	3,744	2,870	4,436	3,900	4,071	3,315	4,422	4,171
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-17,396	-17,314	-17,123	-18,356	-17,294	-15,784	-12,581	-12,692
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	-9,913	-10,258	-10,419	-10,632	-8,661	-7,483	-7,046	-4,860
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	188	461	227	284	-270	50	26	41
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	-27,121	-27,111	-27,315	-28,704	-26,224	-23,217	-19,601	-17,511

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