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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 - Western Europe 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	83,792	86,533	84,557	87,762	91,119	91,321	90,269	94,832
2	Exports of goods and services	58,602	60,980	58,967	61,868	62,486	62,842	62,765	66,639
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	38,365	39,717	35,187	39,147	41,082	39,408	37,576	41,261
4	Services³	20,237	21,263	23,780	22,721	21,404	23,434	25,189	25,378
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	1,238	1,234	1,383	1,194	840	1,308	1,176	1,454
6	Travel	4,488	5,253	6,826	5,498	4,729	5,753	6,711	5,662
7	Passenger fares	1,411	1,625	2,022	1,620	1,481	1,736	1,980	1,668
8	Other transportation	1,887	1,944	1,967	1,992	2,016	2,097	2,299	2,144
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	4,003	3,890	3,912	4,345	4,270	4,388	4,461	5,525
10	Other private services⁵	7,181	7,278	7,617	8,041	8,031	8,120	8,520	8,875
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	29	39	53	31	37	32	42	50
12	Income receipts	25,190	25,553	25,590	25,894	28,633	28,479	27,504	28,193
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	25,133	25,497	25,533	25,839	28,575	28,420	27,443	28,135
14	Direct investment receipts	12,150	12,157	12,067	11,441	13,524	12,955	10,939	13,095
15	Other private receipts	12,701	13,170	13,190	14,188	14,771	15,286	16,221	14,811
16	U.S. government receipts	282	170	276	210	280	179	283	229
17	Compensation of employees	57	56	57	55	58	59	61	58
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-83,071	-91,699	-91,617	-92,497	-90,998	-99,872	-100,489	-101,427
19	Imports of goods and services	-55,818	-63,388	-62,168	-62,893	-60,845	-68,331	-70,145	-71,191
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-40,948	-45,149	-43,088	-46,649	-45,140	-48,270	-48,671	-52,429
21	Services³	-14,870	-18,239	-19,080	-16,244	-15,705	-20,061	-21,474	-18,762
22	Direct defense expenditures	-1,850	-1,632	-1,798	-1,817	-1,546	-1,448	-1,724	-1,687
23	Travel	-3,033	-5,164	-5,522	-3,201	-3,266	-5,775	-6,345	-3,769
24	Passenger fares	-1,703	-2,586	-2,786	-1,689	-1,872	-2,941	-3,109	-2,180
25	Other transportation	-2,434	-2,667	-2,565	-2,621	-2,567	-2,732	-2,897	-2,908
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-1,334	-1,346	-1,432	-1,589	-1,572	-1,580	-1,696	-1,980
27	Other private services⁵	-4,243	-4,596	-4,681	-5,051	-4,630	-5,319	-5,413	-5,952
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-273	-248	-296	-276	-252	-266	-290	-286
29	Income payments	-27,253	-28,311	-29,449	-29,604	-30,153	-31,541	-30,344	-30,236
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-27,179	-28,246	-29,385	-29,527	-30,094	-31,489	-30,286	-30,148
31	Direct investment payments	-7,621	-8,052	-8,177	-6,589	-6,673	-7,295	-5,397	-6,121
32	Other private payments	-13,015	-13,272	-13,825	-15,061	-15,376	-16,056	-16,906	-16,131
33	U.S. government payments	-6,543	-6,922	-7,383	-7,877	-8,045	-8,138	-7,983	-7,896
34	Compensation of employees	-74	-65	-64	-77	-59	-52	-58	-88
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	218	226	26	-118	-255	-348	-329	-280
36	U.S. government grants⁴	-151	-130	-163	-117	-90	-187	-161	-125
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-306	-322	-326	-387	-338	-347	-346	-368
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	675	678	515	386	173	186	178	213
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	-70	-71	-70	-69	-64	-64	-65	-65
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-98,255	-19,074	-59,832	-35,244	-65,697	-90,940	-23,207	-79,642
41	U.S. official reserve assets	-196	-139	-142	-134	-151	-148	-50	-2,386
42	Gold⁷	.....	.....	.....	.....	0	0	0	0
43	Special drawing rights	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....
44	Reserve position in the International Monetary Fund	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....
45	Foreign currencies	-196	-139	-142	-134	-151	-148	-50	-2,386
46	U.S. government assets, other than official reserve assets	157	-17	185	247	191	-16	272	208
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	-86	-112	-71	-156	-93	-59	-76	-50
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	255	109	281	336	273	126	277	239
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	-12	-14	-25	67	11	-83	71	19
50	U.S. private assets	-98,216	-18,918	-59,875	-35,357	-65,737	-90,776	-23,429	-77,464
51	Direct investment	-14,406	-13,594	-6,875	-12,114	-26,967	-29,336	-12,446	-15,582
52	Foreign securities	-7,760	575	-26,547	-7,358	-6,436	-18,776	3,464	-70,881
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	-24,887	-7,559	-10,561	-20,524	-15,144	-17,357	-5,356	7,749
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	-51,163	1,660	-15,892	4,639	-17,190	-25,307	-9,091	1,250
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	113,300	75,810	121,673	146,508	71,111	110,089	85,745	61,319
56	Foreign official assets in the United States	11,069	1,385	633	-7,214	-3,370	5,081	-3,546	7,814
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	-166	-129	-168	35	139	-172	-112	-559
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	102,231	74,425	121,040	153,722	74,481	105,008	89,291	53,505
64	Direct investment	20,862	15,613	13,942	25,180	15,711	15,551	14,722	107,212
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	26,105	28,182	35,155	18,748	44,122	48,539	31,266	30,392
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	28,324	390	18,955	41,448	33,012	29,980	7,711	-52,417
69	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
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	-15,914	-51,725	-54,737	-106,342	-5,216	-10,186	-51,924	25,263
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-2,583	-5,432	-7,901	-7,502	-4,058	-8,862	-11,095	-11,168
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	5,367	3,024	4,700	6,477	5,699	3,373	3,715	6,616
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	2,784	-2,408	-3,201	-1,025	1,641	-5,489	-7,380	-4,552
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	-2,063	-2,758	-3,859	-3,710	-1,520	-3,062	-2,840	-2,043
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	218	226	26	-118	-255	-348	-329	-280
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	939	-4,940	-7,034	-4,853	-134	-8,899	-10,549	-6,875

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