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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 - South and Central America 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	73,481	79,978	84,700	87,701	88,107	96,002	101,660	89,998
2	Exports of goods and services	64,009	69,004	72,682	75,478	76,411	83,621	89,369	80,768
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	51,324	55,243	57,423	59,168	61,098	67,714	72,319	63,939
4	Services³	12,685	13,761	15,260	16,310	15,313	15,907	17,050	16,829
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	169	158	159	189	182	154	159	179
6	Travel	4,004	4,893	5,354	5,291	4,764	5,336	5,794	5,541
7	Passenger fares	1,482	1,401	1,518	1,872	1,866	1,730	1,775	1,941
8	Other transportation	1,078	1,124	1,233	1,302	1,312	1,452	1,548	1,301
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	1,024	1,129	1,379	1,488	1,322	1,362	1,331	1,444
10	Other private services⁵	4,898	5,025	5,583	6,128	5,831	5,829	6,398	6,379
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	29	30	33	40	38	44	44	43
12	Income receipts	9,472	10,974	12,018	12,223	11,696	12,381	12,291	9,230
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	9,424	10,925	11,969	12,174	11,646	12,331	12,241	9,180
14	Direct investment receipts	6,411	7,524	8,323	8,477	8,153	8,891	8,734	5,841
15	Other private receipts	2,992	3,332	3,613	3,628	3,483	3,390	3,498	3,283
16	U.S. government receipts	21	69	33	69	10	50	9	56
17	Compensation of employees	48	49	49	49	50	50	50	50
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-89,706	-97,009	-101,495	-104,996	-101,779	-112,260	-116,388	-94,391
19	Imports of goods and services	-83,089	-89,125	-93,409	-97,748	-95,244	-105,404	-109,089	-87,798
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-74,927	-80,791	-84,933	-88,970	-85,677	-95,824	-99,438	-78,594
21	Services³	-8,162	-8,334	-8,476	-8,778	-9,567	-9,580	-9,651	-9,204
22	Direct defense expenditures	-67	-87	-82	-69	-78	-77	-96	-85
23	Travel	-4,832	-4,549	-4,496	-4,679	-5,423	-5,034	-4,934	-4,570
24	Passenger fares	-565	-594	-719	-855	-742	-684	-729	-930
25	Other transportation	-796	-844	-851	-876	-1,062	-1,126	-1,169	-934
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-40	-37	-46	-38	-34	-31	-52	-48
27	Other private services⁵	-1,746	-2,105	-2,155	-2,137	-2,099	-2,500	-2,536	-2,502
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-116	-118	-127	-124	-129	-128	-135	-134
29	Income payments	-6,617	-7,884	-8,086	-7,248	-6,535	-6,856	-7,299	-6,594
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-4,980	-6,075	-6,145	-5,273	-4,791	-5,006	-5,315	-4,549
31	Direct investment payments	-646	-1,335	-1,098	-133	-75	-364	-757	-381
32	Other private payments	-2,308	-2,383	-2,497	-2,410	-1,843	-1,675	-1,762	-1,632
33	U.S. government payments	-2,026	-2,357	-2,550	-2,730	-2,873	-2,967	-2,796	-2,536
34	Compensation of employees	-1,637	-1,809	-1,941	-1,975	-1,744	-1,850	-1,984	-2,044
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	-6,474	-6,322	-6,683	-6,351	-6,493	-6,825	-7,317	-7,405
36	U.S. government grants⁴	-585	-329	-623	-447	-402	-476	-639	-667
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-153	-165	-165	-166	-166	-170	-173	-174
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	-5,736	-5,827	-5,894	-5,737	-5,926	-6,179	-6,505	-6,564
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	-38	-55	-92	-41	-44	-54	-50	-39
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-8,000	-16,668	-24,701	-9,346	5,161	-16,066	-4,426	4,976
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	118	262	-7	582	13	166	19	143
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	-17	-88	-45	-8	-38	-21	-48	-7
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	152	216	132	584	68	169	45	155
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	-17	134	-94	6	-18	18	22	-5
50	U.S. private assets	-8,118	-16,930	-24,694	-9,928	5,149	-16,232	-4,445	4,833
51	Direct investment	-5,499	-5,208	-6,141	-6,847	-6,287	-5,502	-7,772	-6,358
52	Foreign securities	2,074	-5,740	-2,733	-436	13,671	1,952	269	5,715
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	-469	517	-333	-667	-721	-1,630	-73	1,032
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	-4,224	-6,499	-15,487	-1,978	-1,514	-11,052	3,131	4,444
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	30,015	41,258	22,983	23,979	25,489	26,598	-11,731	-11,619
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	6	38	26	12	170	6	47	30
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	1,504	783	849	-1,899	2,312	3,016	1,431	-1,586
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	1,931	3,019	2,812	876	3,258	1,414	2,895	-981
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 26,574	¹⁸ 37,418	¹⁸ 19,296	¹⁸ 24,990	¹⁸ 19,749	¹⁸ 22,162	¹⁸ -16,104	¹⁸ -9,082
70	Financial derivatives, net	-805	485	1,346	-2,343	-330	243	-143	n.a.
71	Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)¹⁴	1,526	-1,666	23,942	11,396	-10,110	12,362	38,395	18,481
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-23,603	-25,548	-27,510	-29,801	-24,579	-28,110	-27,119	-14,655
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	4,523	5,427	6,784	7,532	5,746	6,327	7,399	7,625
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-19,080	-20,121	-20,726	-22,269	-18,833	-21,782	-19,720	-7,030
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	2,855	3,090	3,932	4,975	5,161	5,525	4,992	2,636
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	-6,474	-6,322	-6,683	-6,351	-6,493	-6,825	-7,317	-7,405
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	-22,699	-23,353	-23,477	-23,645	-20,166	-23,083	-22,044	-11,798

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