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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: No Revision

Table 12. U.S. International Transactions, by Area - Other countries in Asia and Africa ²⁶
[Millions of dollars, not seasonally adjusted]

Line	(Credits +; debits -) ¹	1997				1998
Line	(Credits +; debits -) ¹	I	II	III	IV	I	II	III	IV
	Current account	I	II	III	IV	I	II	III	IV
1	Exports of goods and services and income receipts	57,688	60,781	60,936	59,676	53,493	52,068	51,353	57,416
2	Exports of goods and services	49,990	53,333	53,560	53,521	47,696	46,141	45,584	51,629
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	36,592	39,150	38,416	40,641	34,104	32,712	31,274	38,481
4	Services³	13,398	14,183	15,144	12,880	13,592	13,429	14,310	13,148
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	2,220	3,114	2,473	2,137	2,791	2,852	2,437	2,499
6	Travel	2,479	3,289	3,964	2,405	2,014	2,797	3,366	2,307
7	Passenger fares	416	439	629	425	387	481	593	371
8	Other transportation	2,154	2,177	2,086	2,208	1,780	1,834	1,933	1,963
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	995	1,080	1,167	1,158	993	1,007	1,044	1,097
10	Other private services⁵	4,981	3,989	4,712	4,418	5,524	4,323	4,849	4,786
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	153	95	113	129	103	135	88	125
12	Income receipts	7,698	7,448	7,376	6,155	5,797	5,927	5,769	5,787
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	7,623	7,373	7,300	6,079	5,717	5,847	5,688	5,706
14	Direct investment receipts	4,823	4,163	4,204	2,921	2,673	2,816	2,587	2,807
15	Other private receipts	2,484	2,893	2,728	2,867	2,767	2,797	2,776	2,626
16	U.S. government receipts	316	317	368	291	277	234	325	273
17	Compensation of employees	75	75	76	76	80	80	81	81
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-71,045	-76,236	-86,316	-82,380	-76,737	-79,788	-88,148	-83,645
19	Imports of goods and services	-63,716	-69,157	-79,051	-75,172	-69,205	-72,250	-80,517	-76,453
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-56,240	-61,276	-70,639	-67,064	-61,064	-63,803	-71,655	-67,336
21	Services³	-7,476	-7,881	-8,412	-8,108	-8,141	-8,447	-8,862	-9,117
22	Direct defense expenditures	-519	-633	-654	-836	-880	-950	-951	-1,062
23	Travel	-2,450	-2,437	-2,737	-2,249	-2,547	-2,678	-2,732	-2,708
24	Passenger fares	-1,035	-1,176	-1,178	-1,114	-1,102	-1,068	-1,161	-1,234
25	Other transportation	-1,732	-1,810	-1,903	-1,942	-1,802	-1,913	-2,099	-2,148
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-76	-79	-68	-74	-50	-37	-38	-39
27	Other private services⁵	-1,487	-1,549	-1,674	-1,704	-1,557	-1,627	-1,671	-1,721
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-177	-197	-198	-189	-203	-174	-210	-205
29	Income payments	-7,329	-7,079	-7,265	-7,208	-7,532	-7,538	-7,631	-7,192
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-7,200	-6,989	-7,186	-7,073	-7,400	-7,444	-7,546	-7,034
31	Direct investment payments	51	164	93	279	150	39	-58	231
32	Other private payments	-2,452	-2,199	-2,313	-2,348	-2,524	-2,392	-2,490	-2,188
33	U.S. government payments	-4,799	-4,954	-4,966	-5,004	-5,026	-5,091	-4,998	-5,077
34	Compensation of employees	-129	-90	-79	-135	-132	-94	-85	-158
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	-3,431	-3,168	-3,381	-6,650	-3,899	-3,365	-4,017	-7,086
36	U.S. government grants⁴	-1,234	-1,235	-1,288	-4,374	-1,354	-1,025	-1,551	-4,464
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-125	-131	-78	-122	-122	-120	-48	-124
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	-2,072	-1,802	-2,015	-2,154	-2,423	-2,220	-2,418	-2,498
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	-105	-107	-199	-130	-116	-114	-131	-118
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-19,251	-10,522	-9,518	1,577	4,510	-1,784	3,266	-2,950
41	U.S. official reserve assets	.....	.....	.....	.....	0	0	0	0
42	Gold⁷	.....	.....	.....	.....	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	-23	-157	412	-13	-69	-351	165	123
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	-453	-614	-483	-487	-394	-632	-207	-223
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	451	469	940	421	367	251	369	289
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	-21	-12	-45	53	-42	30	3	57
50	U.S. private assets	-19,228	-10,365	-9,930	1,590	4,579	-1,433	3,101	-3,073
51	Direct investment	-7,592	-2,291	-4,894	-2,141	-2,150	-949	-1,438	-2,638
52	Foreign securities	-3,401	-2,559	-9,148	-4,148	-4,076	-6,951	3,990	970
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	-376	385	-1,260	-147	-790	2,301	-181	469
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	-7,859	-5,900	5,372	8,026	11,595	4,166	730	-1,874
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	25,828	-14,546	18,503	1,740	18,554	-5,259	-17,979	14,290
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	72	-597	-523	301	-484	-1,033	-283	-849
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	1,547	2,843	-1,261	578	-1,238	-448	-314	407
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	2,989	679	1,484	-868	1,363	-1,149	-8,958	-1,018
67	U.S. currency	.....	.....	.....	.....	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
68	U.S. liabilities to unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	997	16	1,950	-1,143	1,555	8	-1,583	-2,989
69	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	¹⁸ 20,223	¹⁸ -17,487	¹⁸ 16,853	¹⁸ 2,872	¹⁸ 17,358	¹⁸ -2,637	¹⁸ -6,841	¹⁸ 18,739
70	Financial derivatives, net	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
71	Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)¹⁴	10,316	43,798	19,975	26,167	4,195	38,242	55,656	22,093
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-19,648	-22,126	-32,223	-26,423	-26,960	-31,091	-40,381	-28,855
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	5,922	6,302	6,732	4,772	5,451	4,982	5,448	4,031
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-13,726	-15,824	-25,491	-21,651	-21,509	-26,109	-34,933	-24,824
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	369	369	111	-1,053	-1,735	-1,611	-1,862	-1,405
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	-3,431	-3,168	-3,381	-6,650	-3,899	-3,365	-4,017	-7,086
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	-16,788	-18,623	-28,761	-29,354	-27,143	-31,085	-40,812	-33,315

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