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Recent Updates

Annual Revision of the U.S. International Transactions Accounts (ITAs)

September 18, 2012
All tables updated to reflect revised and preliminary data through the second quarter of 2012.

June 21, 2012
Table 2a, Part A, lines A6 and A18 quarterly data are corrected for 2009. The corrections do not affect total goods exports or imports, either on a Census basis or on a balance of payments basis. Table 2a, Parts B and C (geographic and commodity detail) are not affected, nor are tables 1 and 12, which also present data on U.S. trade in goods.

International Transactions

BEA's international transactions (balance of payments) accounts include all transactions between U.S. and foreign residents.

  • The current account includes exports and imports of goods, services, income, and net unilateral current transfers.
  • The capital account includes mainly capital transfers, such as U.S. government debt forgiveness.
  • The financial account includes transactions in financial assets, such as U.S. purchases and sales of foreign securities, foreign purchases and sales of U.S. securities, U.S. direct investment abroad, foreign direct investment in the United States, U.S. bank lending to foreigners, and U.S. bank borrowing from foreigners.
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Additional information

The international transactions accounts are just one part of BEA's international accounts.