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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 - Other Africa 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	7,531	6,842	8,835	8,776	9,082	9,875	10,758	8,758
2	Exports of goods and services	6,186	5,484	7,176	7,153	7,339	7,536	8,748	7,651
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	4,219	3,544	4,650	5,053	5,014	5,187	6,128	5,432
4	Services³	1,967	1,939	2,526	2,100	2,325	2,349	2,619	2,220
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	392	213	439	248	324	207	220	217
6	Travel	172	279	381	219	219	369	486	241
7	Passenger fares	44	54	66	71	73	107	144	76
8	Other transportation	199	242	260	293	239	282	289	255
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	75	97	117	123	84	85	83	92
10	Other private services⁵	1,064	1,035	1,242	1,125	1,365	1,283	1,379	1,323
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	21	20	21	22	20	16	18	16
12	Income receipts	1,345	1,359	1,659	1,623	1,743	2,339	2,010	1,106
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	1,328	1,342	1,642	1,606	1,725	2,321	1,992	1,088
14	Direct investment receipts	1,136	1,187	1,440	1,432	1,446	2,087	1,563	995
15	Other private receipts	128	132	134	152	222	224	157	68
16	U.S. government receipts	64	23	68	22	57	10	272	25
17	Compensation of employees	17	17	17	17	18	18	18	18
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-19,170	-22,037	-23,197	-24,656	-26,305	-32,522	-31,564	-19,846
19	Imports of goods and services	-18,777	-21,594	-22,744	-24,179	-25,845	-32,084	-31,127	-19,448
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-17,767	-20,465	-21,617	-23,109	-24,785	-30,747	-29,744	-18,267
21	Services³	-1,010	-1,129	-1,127	-1,071	-1,060	-1,337	-1,383	-1,181
22	Direct defense expenditures	-81	-88	-93	-93	-119	-108	-104	-95
23	Travel	-368	-455	-466	-410	-355	-575	-541	-416
24	Passenger fares	-26	-35	-32	-37	-49	-61	-70	-41
25	Other transportation	-91	-90	-87	-91	-97	-121	-124	-109
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-1	-1	-3	-3	-4	-3	-2	-2
27	Other private services⁵	-394	-411	-393	-386	-386	-424	-484	-463
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-49	-48	-53	-51	-51	-44	-57	-55
29	Income payments	-393	-443	-452	-477	-460	-437	-437	-398
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-365	-428	-441	-449	-432	-423	-427	-370
31	Direct investment payments	-19	-17	(D)	(D)	(D)	-5	-20	(D)
32	Other private payments	-199	-225	-225	-226	-209	-181	-161	-109
33	U.S. government payments	-147	-186	(D)	(D)	(D)	-237	-246	(D)
34	Compensation of employees	-28	-15	-11	-28	-28	-15	-10	-28
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	-3,042	-1,646	-1,792	-1,685	-3,447	-2,074	-2,202	-775
36	U.S. government grants⁴	-2,244	-835	-924	-795	-2,365	-1,107	-1,239	-1,144
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-22	-6	-6	-6	-6	-6	-6	-6
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	-776	-805	-862	-884	-1,076	-961	-957	375
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	-9	-44	-14	-10	-11	-14	-125	-17
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-635	-37	-810	-2,846	-6,903	-2,233	15,689	-498
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	53	5	84	-14	52	-67	24	-14
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	-9	-7	1	-5	-3	-29	7	-1
50	U.S. private assets	-688	-42	-894	-2,832	-6,955	-2,166	15,665	-484
51	Direct investment	-1,465	-402	-506	1,092	-347	1,431	-1,197	-2,451
52	Foreign securities	560	130	-28	2,163	1,938	-669	2,279	379
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	-52	-62	63	-89	-497	-59	82	203
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	269	292	-423	-5,998	-8,049	-2,869	14,501	1,385
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	1,156	6,137	-1,696	9,447	4,819	11,385	-15,328	5,283
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	-367	-115	-192	27	97	36	57	51
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	-141	-43	-136	91	431	-265	-16	248
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	-63	-137	-161	-334	-2,705	-571	-2,717	-837
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	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
69	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	¹⁸ 1,727	¹⁸ 6,432	¹⁸ -1,207	¹⁸ 9,663	¹⁸ 6,996	¹⁸ 12,185	¹⁸ -12,652	¹⁸ 5,821
70	Financial derivatives, net	-263	-212	329	-121	-146	35	137	n.a.
71	Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)¹⁴	14,433	10,996	18,344	11,094	22,912	15,548	22,635	7,096
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-13,548	-16,921	-16,968	-18,056	-19,772	-25,561	-23,616	-12,836
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	956	811	1,399	1,030	1,265	1,012	1,237	1,039
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-12,591	-16,111	-15,568	-17,026	-18,507	-24,549	-22,379	-11,797
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	952	916	1,206	1,146	1,283	1,902	1,573	708
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	-3,042	-1,646	-1,792	-1,685	-3,447	-2,074	-2,202	-775
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	-14,681	-16,841	-16,154	-17,565	-20,670	-24,721	-23,008	-11,863

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