U.S. International Transactions Accounts Data

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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 - Africa 26
[Millions of dollars, not seasonally adjusted]
Line (Credits +; debits -) 1 2007 2008
I II III IV I II III IV p
  Current account  
1 Exports of goods and services and income receipts 9,540 9,037 11,439 11,335 11,543 12,312 13,411 11,415
2     Exports of goods and services 7,766 7,274 9,365 9,223 9,359 9,604 11,018 9,879
3         Goods, balance of payments basis2 5,346 4,837 6,274 6,509 6,533 6,708 7,867 7,132
4         Services3 2,420 2,437 3,091 2,714 2,826 2,896 3,151 2,748
5             Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts4 392 213 439 248 326 208 220 217
6             Travel 238 375 476 308 290 475 589 339
7             Passenger fares 47 61 77 82 77 115 151 88
8             Other transportation 242 287 308 348 298 349 357 313
9             Royalties and license fees5 163 234 258 296 212 225 197 216
10             Other private services5 1,316 1,246 1,511 1,409 1,601 1,507 1,617 1,557
11             U.S. government miscellaneous services 22 21 22 23 22 17 20 17
12     Income receipts 1,774 1,763 2,074 2,112 2,184 2,708 2,393 1,536
13         Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad 1,755 1,744 2,055 2,093 2,164 2,688 2,373 1,516
14             Direct investment receipts 1,360 1,365 1,622 1,683 1,630 2,192 1,663 1,099
15             Other private receipts 331 351 365 382 477 481 438 387
16             U.S. government receipts 64 28 68 28 57 15 272 30
17         Compensation of employees 19 19 19 19 20 20 20 20
18 Imports of goods and services and income payments -21,554 -24,825 -26,095 -27,314 -29,222 -35,618 -34,883 -22,189
19     Imports of goods and services -21,094 -24,310 -25,604 -26,814 -28,712 -35,108 -34,393 -21,763
20         Goods, balance of payments basis2 -19,779 -22,793 -24,053 -25,379 -27,319 -33,398 -32,575 -20,198
21         Services3 -1,315 -1,517 -1,551 -1,435 -1,393 -1,710 -1,817 -1,565
22             Direct defense expenditures -82 -89 -95 -94 -120 -110 -105 -96
23             Travel -471 -613 -648 -508 -428 -702 -688 -515
24             Passenger fares -62 -70 -78 -83 -100 -109 -118 -92
25             Other transportation -113 -112 -109 -111 -125 -149 -153 -134
26             Royalties and license fees5 -4 -11 -6 -8 -12 -8 -5 -6
27             Other private services5 -520 -560 -547 -566 -543 -574 -676 -652
28             U.S. government miscellaneous services -63 -61 -68 -65 -66 -58 -72 -70
29     Income payments -460 -515 -490 -500 -510 -510 -490 -427
30         Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States -429 -498 -477 -470 -479 -493 -478 -395
31             Direct investment payments -29 -32 14 22 4 -11 -22 -5
32             Other private payments -234 -259 -268 -258 -243 -215 -194 -142
33             U.S. government payments -166 -207 -223 -234 -240 -267 -262 -248
34         Compensation of employees -31 -17 -13 -31 -31 -17 -13 -31
35 Unilateral current transfers, net -3,201 -1,816 -1,997 -1,867 -3,670 -2,284 -2,441 -1,017
36     U.S. government grants4 -2,280 -873 -975 -825 -2,431 -1,165 -1,303 -1,200
37     U.S. government pensions and other transfers -24 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8 -8
38     Private remittances and other transfers6 -897 -935 -1,014 -1,034 -1,231 -1,111 -1,130 191
  Capital account  
39 Capital account transactions, net -10 -45 -15 -11 -12 -15 -126 -18
  Financial account  
40 U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives
     (increase/financial outflow (-))
-1,282 -268 -1,460 -3,736 -8,699 -2,421 14,784 -381
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 54 6 91 -25 54 -65 13 -13
47         U.S. credits and other long-term assets -61 -67 -64 -58 -65 -58 -325 -61
48         Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets8 123 79 147 49 120 20 342 48
49         U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets -8 -6 8 -16 -1 -27 -4 0
50     U.S. private assets -1,336 -274 -1,551 -3,711 -8,753 -2,356 14,771 -368
51         Direct investment -1,995 -380 -593 965 -547 1,428 -1,101 -2,617
52         Foreign securities 146 -129 -567 1,644 287 -920 1,773 637
53         U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S.
             nonbanking concerns
-91 -42 -1 -35 -508 -111 86 168
54         U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere 604 277 -390 -6,285 -7,985 -2,753 14,013 1,444
55 Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial
     derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))
1,230 6,475 -2,455 10,061 8,325 9,836 -16,559 4,161
56     Foreign official assets in the United States 1,735 4,168 -593 1,666 1,645 3,688 2,494 1,976
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 -367 -115 -192 27 97 36 57 51
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 -505 2,307 -1,862 8,395 6,680 6,148 -19,053 2,185
64         Direct investment -136 77 -725 110 883 -118 27 95
65         U.S. Treasury securities ( 17 ) ( 17 ) ( 17 ) ( 17 ) ( 17 ) ( 17 ) ( 17 ) ( 17 )
66         U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities -93 -231 -217 -298 -2,658 -421 -2,577 -820
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 3 1,375 -1,310 7,637 5,806 4,540 -16,569 965
70 Financial derivatives, net -263 -212 329 -121 -146 35 137 n.a.
71 Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)14 15,542 11,653 20,254 11,653 21,881 18,155 25,676 8,030
  Memoranda:  
72 Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20) -14,434 -17,956 -17,779 -18,870 -20,786 -26,690 -24,708 -13,066
73 Balance on services (lines 4 and 21) 1,105 920 1,540 1,279 1,433 1,186 1,334 1,183
74 Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19) -13,328 -17,036 -16,239 -17,590 -19,353 -25,503 -23,375 -11,883
75 Balance on income (lines 12 and 29) 1,314 1,248 1,584 1,611 1,674 2,198 1,903 1,109
76 Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35) -3,201 -1,816 -1,997 -1,867 -3,670 -2,284 -2,441 -1,017
77 Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)13 -15,216 -17,604 -16,652 -17,846 -21,349 -25,589 -23,913 -11,791

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