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Today's Date: August 5, 2010     Release Date: June 17, 2010     Next Release Date: September 16, 2010
Earliest Quarter Revised on June 17, 2010: 1982:I
Table 1. U.S. International Transactions
[Millions of dollars, seasonally adjusted]
Line (Credits +; debits -) 1 2009 2010
I II III IV I p
  Current account  
1 Exports of goods and services and income receipts 521,735 520,110 540,729 576,426 602,106
2     Exports of goods and services 378,378 377,829 394,145 420,444 438,557
3         Goods, balance of payments basis2 255,044 254,021 268,858 290,576 305,655
4         Services3 123,334 123,808 125,287 129,868 132,902
5             Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts4 3,381 4,561 5,445 3,709 4,435
6             Travel 23,631 23,006 23,311 23,969 25,187
7             Passenger fares 7,035 6,534 6,498 6,356 6,784
8             Other transportation 8,652 8,549 8,834 9,371 9,730
9             Royalties and license fees5 21,502 22,363 21,396 24,530 24,269
10             Other private services5 58,831 58,487 59,458 61,555 62,037
11             U.S. government miscellaneous services 302 309 345 377 460
12     Income receipts 143,356 142,281 146,584 155,982 163,549
13         Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad 142,618 141,543 145,855 155,239 162,790
14             Direct investment receipts 75,363 82,354 89,626 98,730 106,667
15             Other private receipts 64,788 58,080 55,506 56,084 55,687
16             U.S. government receipts 2,467 1,109 723 425 436
17         Compensation of employees 738 738 728 743 759
18 Imports of goods and services and income payments -587,564 -574,265 -604,594 -646,066 -675,660
19     Imports of goods and services -468,817 -458,270 -493,467 -525,152 -553,813
20         Goods, balance of payments basis2 -376,241 -367,528 -400,977 -430,698 -456,949
21         Services3 -92,576 -90,742 -92,490 -94,454 -96,863
22             Direct defense expenditures -7,395 -7,662 -7,728 -7,689 -7,774
23             Travel -18,702 -17,721 -18,459 -18,348 -18,512
24             Passenger fares -6,784 -6,163 -6,455 -6,578 -6,885
25             Other transportation -11,295 -10,141 -9,880 -10,269 -11,310
26             Royalties and license fees5 -5,988 -6,442 -6,137 -6,663 -7,537
27             Other private services5 -41,274 -41,461 -42,611 -43,546 -43,655
28             U.S. government miscellaneous services -1,138 -1,152 -1,220 -1,360 -1,190
29     Income payments -118,747 -115,995 -111,127 -120,914 -121,847
30         Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States -116,032 -113,323 -108,460 -118,212 -119,045
31             Direct investment payments -13,663 -22,810 -23,348 -34,189 -36,296
32             Other private payments -63,460 -54,146 -50,473 -49,941 -48,363
33             U.S. government payments -38,909 -36,367 -34,639 -34,082 -34,386
34         Compensation of employees -2,715 -2,673 -2,667 -2,702 -2,802
35 Unilateral current transfers, net -29,747 -30,292 -33,638 -31,268 -35,454
36     U.S. government grants4 -8,641 -10,969 -13,067 -8,962 -12,546
37     U.S. government pensions and other transfers -2,180 -2,222 -2,233 -2,241 -2,557
38     Private remittances and other transfers6 -18,927 -17,101 -18,338 -20,065 -20,351
  Capital account  
39 Capital account transactions, net -20 -29 -36 -56 -1
  Financial account  
40 U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives
     (increase/financial outflow (-)) 		112,726 31,734 -276,241 -8,685 -300,780
41     U.S. official reserve assets -982 -3,632 -49,021 1,379 -773
42         Gold7 0 0 0 0 0
43         Special drawing rights -15 -8 -47,720 -487 -7
44         Reserve position in the International Monetary Fund -754 -3,485 -1,098 1,980 -581
45         Foreign currencies -213 -139 -203 -114 -185
46     U.S. government assets, other than official reserve assets 244,102 193,750 57,736 45,754 9,639
47         U.S. credits and other long-term assets -240 -1,947 -616 -1,266 -1,097
48         Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets8 484 432 534 683 425
49         U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets 243,858 195,265 57,818 46,337 10,311
50     U.S. private assets -130,394 -158,384 -284,956 -55,817 -309,646
51         Direct investment -45,145 -62,066 -78,313 -83,155 -105,029
52         Foreign securities -29,176 -86,725 -46,823 -45,489 -45,868
53         U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S.
             nonbanking concerns 		2,717 22,161 83,302 16,248 34,046
54         U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks and securities brokers14 -58,790 -31,754 -243,122 56,579 -192,795
55 Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial
     derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+)) 		-111,916 -28,348 342,385 103,615 332,064
56     Foreign official assets in the United States 107,912 128,667 96,616 116,835 75,027
57         U.S. government securities 145,512 120,776 73,293 101,475 85,934
58             U.S. Treasury securities9 163,809 149,213 123,675 124,428 89,056
59             Other10 -18,297 -28,437 -50,382 -22,953 -3,122
60         Other U.S. government liabilities11 2,534 685 53,455 1,297 4,002
61         U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks and securities brokers -44,928 -4,900 -33,735 12,712 -15,943
62         Other foreign official assets12 4,794 12,106 3,603 1,351 1,034
63     Other foreign assets in the United States -219,828 -157,015 245,769 -13,220 257,037
64         Direct investment 5,866 31,524 55,803 41,514 47,289
65         U.S. Treasury securities 46,084 -29,321 -9,203 15,221 103,382
66         U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities -67,781 -221 47,708 20,353 5,205
67         U.S. currency 11,816 -1,935 4,179 -1,428 2,265
68         U.S. liabilities to unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S.
             nonbanking concerns 		-11,614 26,564 8,572 -24,982 10,251
69         U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks and securities brokers15 -204,199 -183,626 138,710 -63,898 88,645
70 Financial derivatives, net 7,221 11,275 11,496 20,812 n.a.
71 Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed) 87,565 69,815 19,899 -14,779 16 77,725
71a     Of which: Seasonal adjustment discrepancy 7,761 -1,796 -19,298 13,336 11,162
  Memoranda:  
72 Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20) -121,197 -113,507 -132,119 -140,121 -151,295
73 Balance on services (lines 4 and 21) 30,758 33,066 32,797 35,414 36,039
74 Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19) -90,439 -80,441 -99,322 -104,707 -115,256
75 Balance on income (lines 12 and 29) 24,609 26,286 35,457 35,068 41,702
76 Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35) -29,747 -30,292 -33,638 -31,268 -35,454
77 Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)13 -95,577 -84,447 -97,503 -100,907 -109,008

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