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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 - European Union (6) 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	39,833	40,785	40,832	42,201	42,725	42,510	42,483	43,538
2	Exports of goods and services	29,299	29,984	30,457	31,625	31,544	31,085	31,049	33,215
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	20,297	20,680	19,620	21,777	22,398	21,103	19,921	22,440
4	Services³	9,002	9,304	10,837	9,848	9,146	9,982	11,128	10,775
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	143	148	184	162	86	372	241	538
6	Travel	2,024	2,205	3,244	2,302	2,005	2,412	3,080	2,322
7	Passenger fares	709	809	1,063	816	734	863	1,044	823
8	Other transportation	696	728	795	795	930	972	1,064	959
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	2,346	2,194	2,251	2,425	2,097	2,082	2,180	2,494
10	Other private services⁵	3,075	3,207	3,275	3,335	3,280	3,272	3,503	3,622
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	9	13	25	13	14	9	16	17
12	Income receipts	10,534	10,801	10,375	10,576	11,181	11,425	11,434	10,323
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	10,507	10,775	10,349	10,549	11,154	11,398	11,407	10,296
14	Direct investment receipts	5,701	5,872	5,497	5,468	5,972	6,017	5,827	4,941
15	Other private receipts	4,665	4,771	4,716	4,951	5,037	5,238	5,425	5,185
16	U.S. government receipts	141	132	136	130	145	143	155	170
17	Compensation of employees	27	26	26	27	27	27	27	27
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-38,574	-43,188	-42,183	-42,731	-41,942	-46,548	-46,755	-47,882
19	Imports of goods and services	-30,257	-34,435	-32,783	-33,311	-32,434	-36,371	-36,556	-38,340
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-23,672	-26,663	-24,728	-26,453	-25,783	-27,687	-27,425	-30,270
21	Services³	-6,585	-7,772	-8,055	-6,858	-6,651	-8,684	-9,131	-8,070
22	Direct defense expenditures	-1,282	-1,154	-1,176	-1,218	-1,070	-1,024	-1,155	-1,251
23	Travel	-1,486	-2,315	-2,507	-1,442	-1,471	-2,668	-2,794	-1,714
24	Passenger fares	-673	-1,016	-1,010	-664	-690	-1,108	-1,158	-817
25	Other transportation	-956	-1,000	-1,019	-1,090	-1,083	-1,104	-1,156	-1,145
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-520	-513	-557	-583	-716	-737	-799	-840
27	Other private services⁵	-1,495	-1,622	-1,596	-1,681	-1,463	-1,874	-1,879	-2,112
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-173	-152	-190	-180	-158	-169	-190	-191
29	Income payments	-8,317	-8,753	-9,400	-9,420	-9,508	-10,177	-10,199	-9,542
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-8,280	-8,719	-9,365	-9,381	-9,480	-10,151	-10,168	-9,497
31	Direct investment payments	-3,327	-3,577	-3,702	-3,182	-3,368	-3,801	-3,698	-3,100
32	Other private payments	-2,979	-3,111	-3,426	-3,763	-3,611	-3,779	-3,899	-3,752
33	U.S. government payments	-1,974	-2,031	-2,237	-2,436	-2,501	-2,571	-2,571	-2,645
34	Compensation of employees	-37	-34	-35	-39	-28	-26	-31	-45
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	109	132	82	91	-129	-174	-150	-101
36	U.S. government grants⁴	.....	.....	.....	.....	0	0	0	0
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-156	-171	-173	-172	-164	-181	-187	-158
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	265	303	255	263	35	7	37	57
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	-7	-7	-6	-7	-7	-7	-7	-6
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-32,179	-2,721	-12,819	-420	-20,263	-24,314	-7,155	-29,114
41	U.S. official reserve assets	12	-227	189	-1,351	-420	-135	-3	5,156
42	Gold⁷	.....	.....	.....	.....	0	0	0	0
43	Special drawing rights	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....
44	Reserve position in the International Monetary Fund	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....	.....
45	Foreign currencies	12	-227	189	-1,351	-420	-135	-3	5,156
46	U.S. government assets, other than official reserve assets	-8	-17	-15	56	13	-29	10	16
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	.....	.....	.....	.....	0	0	0	0
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	.....	.....	.....	.....	0	0	0	0
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	-8	-17	-15	56	13	-29	10	16
50	U.S. private assets	-32,183	-2,477	-12,993	875	-19,856	-24,150	-7,162	-34,286
51	Direct investment	-6,924	-5,549	-3,493	-4,440	-9,639	-14,345	-5,079	-4,629
52	Foreign securities	576	351	-905	644	423	-6,485	597	-22,144
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	-6,919	1,760	-3,555	-3,990	4,272	-8,278	-2,155	-3,404
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	-18,916	961	-5,040	8,661	-14,912	4,958	-525	-4,109
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	18,176	44,051	46,663	37,301	15,328	34,100	21,749	61,280
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	90	77	80	98	108	-69	34	-264
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	8,241	11,201	8,448	13,361	6,411	7,066	20,180	45,522
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)	(¹⁸)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	6,622	7,648	14,846	6,615	13,167	15,315	11,753	5,873
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	8,857	2,193	1,395	6,032	6,470	1,673	-6,848	2,079
69	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks, not included elsewhere	¹⁸ -5,634	¹⁸ 22,932	¹⁸ 21,894	¹⁸ 11,195	¹⁸ -10,828	¹⁸ 10,115	¹⁸ -3,370	¹⁸ 8,070
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	12,642	-39,052	-32,569	-36,435	4,288	-5,567	-10,165	-27,715
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-3,375	-5,983	-5,108	-4,676	-3,385	-6,584	-7,504	-7,830
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	2,417	1,532	2,782	2,990	2,495	1,298	1,997	2,705
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-958	-4,451	-2,326	-1,686	-890	-5,286	-5,507	-5,125
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	2,217	2,048	975	1,156	1,673	1,248	1,235	781
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	109	132	82	91	-129	-174	-150	-101
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	1,368	-2,271	-1,269	-439	654	-4,212	-4,422	-4,445

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