International Data

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.

Additional information

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

• About the international accounts
• Complete statistics for the international accounts
• Analytical and other articles