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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 - Middle East 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	15,706	16,412	19,163	22,292	19,908	21,694	23,065	23,095
2	Exports of goods and services	13,502	13,849	16,472	19,271	16,956	18,487	20,015	20,909
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	8,789	9,168	11,202	14,488	12,110	13,104	14,227	15,751
4	Services³	4,714	4,681	5,269	4,783	4,846	5,383	5,788	5,158
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	1,635	1,284	1,207	1,142	1,176	1,158	1,131	1,163
6	Travel	463	597	884	488	518	748	1,036	537
7	Passenger fares	81	71	89	85	83	116	167	89
8	Other transportation	520	584	637	662	761	826	794	674
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	181	195	236	226	238	243	265	290
10	Other private services⁵	1,816	1,934	2,199	2,162	2,053	2,274	2,375	2,384
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	18	17	17	18	16	19	20	22
12	Income receipts	2,204	2,563	2,691	3,021	2,953	3,207	3,050	2,187
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	2,179	2,538	2,666	2,996	2,927	3,181	3,023	2,161
14	Direct investment receipts	1,476	1,807	1,902	2,252	2,293	2,618	2,447	1,627
15	Other private receipts	679	716	740	722	618	553	560	523
16	U.S. government receipts	24	15	24	22	16	10	16	11
17	Compensation of employees	25	25	25	25	26	26	26	26
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-23,293	-27,503	-29,060	-30,649	-34,809	-37,905	-42,084	-28,983
19	Imports of goods and services	-20,023	-23,691	-25,534	-27,477	-31,465	-35,440	-39,235	-26,380
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-15,392	-18,868	-20,498	-22,646	-26,232	-30,038	-33,697	-21,186
21	Services³	-4,631	-4,823	-5,036	-4,831	-5,233	-5,402	-5,539	-5,194
22	Direct defense expenditures	-3,304	-3,214	-3,300	-3,213	-3,421	-3,364	-3,571	-3,409
23	Travel	-289	-459	-505	-404	-463	-544	-471	-409
24	Passenger fares	-138	-191	-236	-192	-299	-309	-309	-216
25	Other transportation	-291	-306	-322	-322	-328	-381	-413	-366
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-62	-47	-35	-67	-48	-44	-74	-72
27	Other private services⁵	-489	-550	-578	-577	-618	-694	-632	-660
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-58	-56	-60	-56	-57	-65	-69	-62
29	Income payments	-3,270	-3,812	-3,525	-3,172	-3,344	-2,466	-2,849	-2,603
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-3,249	-3,800	-3,516	-3,154	-3,326	-2,454	-2,840	-2,584
31	Direct investment payments	-118	-445	-205	206	-108	645	194	352
32	Other private payments	-1,532	-1,566	-1,530	-1,600	-1,535	-1,502	-1,641	-1,546
33	U.S. government payments	-1,599	-1,789	-1,781	-1,760	-1,683	-1,597	-1,393	-1,390
34	Compensation of employees	-21	-12	-9	-18	-18	-11	-9	-19
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	-4,807	-2,231	-2,123	-2,883	-4,038	-2,057	-2,242	-3,244
36	U.S. government grants⁴	-4,148	-1,632	-1,453	-2,263	-3,456	-1,648	-1,846	-2,847
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-33	-32	-32	-37	-38	-47	-31	-39
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	-626	-567	-638	-583	-544	-362	-365	-358
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	-85	-86	-87	-88	-90	-90	-91	-92
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-3,031	-4,778	2,390	-7,855	8,955	1,812	4,092	3,083
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	29	40	32	24	35	65	11	32
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	-14	-9	-13	-14	-5	-8	-7	-5
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	41	46	45	41	52	60	31	35
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	2	3	(*)	-3	-12	13	-13	2
50	U.S. private assets	-3,060	-4,818	2,358	-7,879	8,920	1,747	4,081	3,051
51	Direct investment	-1,729	-421	-540	-992	-2,252	-960	-795	-468
52	Foreign securities	-42	259	1,264	292	1,188	2,028	2,250	2,238
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	19	-1,178	569	-302	516	-41	-705	-591
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	-1,308	-3,478	1,065	-6,877	9,468	720	3,331	1,872
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	14,630	5,253	2,721	16,045	26,173	21,359	15,208	13,524
56	Foreign official assets in the United States	10,938	-5,094	-1,120	13,849	21,628	10,903	12,978	11,046
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	-38	-153	-49	251	235	1,030	116	67
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	3,692	10,347	3,841	2,196	4,545	10,456	2,230	2,478
64	Direct investment	-43	1,234	1,077	880	1,932	1,151	-1,175	-1,150
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	3,116	2,811	1,234	2,866	2,094	4,693	800	-140
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	-1,361	2,452	150	-733	-2,838	2,773	322	164
70	Financial derivatives, net	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)	(¹⁹)
71	Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)¹⁴	879	12,933	6,995	3,139	-16,099	-4,813	2,051	-7,384
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-6,604	-9,701	-9,296	-8,158	-14,122	-16,934	-19,469	-5,435
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	83	-142	233	-48	-388	-18	250	-36
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-6,521	-9,842	-9,063	-8,206	-14,510	-16,953	-19,220	-5,471
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	-1,066	-1,249	-834	-151	-392	741	200	-417
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	-4,807	-2,231	-2,123	-2,883	-4,038	-2,057	-2,242	-3,244
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	-12,394	-13,322	-12,020	-11,241	-18,939	-18,268	-21,261	-9,131

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