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Today's Date: February 9, 2010 Release Date: December 16, 2009 Next Release Date: March 18, 2010

Earliest Quarter Revised on December 16, 2009: 2009:II

Table 12. U.S. International Transactions, by Area - Latin America and Other Western Hemisphere ²⁶

[Millions of dollars, not seasonally adjusted]

Line	(Credits +; debits -) ¹	2008				2009
Line	(Credits +; debits -) ¹	I	II	III	IV	I	II	III ^p
	Current account	I	II	III	IV	I	II	III ^p
1	Exports of goods and services and income receipts	132,469	138,982	144,319	129,427	103,264	104,450	111,463
2	Exports of goods and services	90,064	96,702	102,640	93,363	75,542	75,864	82,500
3	Goods, balance of payments basis²	66,792	73,618	78,204	69,192	54,648	55,234	60,999
4	Services³	23,272	23,084	24,436	24,171	20,894	20,630	21,500
5	Transfers under U.S. military agency sales contracts⁴	190	162	164	169	160	231	189
6	Travel	5,262	6,147	7,224	6,672	4,982	5,463	5,945
7	Passenger fares	2,043	1,963	2,113	2,164	1,959	1,856	1,735
8	Other transportation	1,752	1,922	2,066	1,707	1,307	1,318	1,488
9	Royalties and license fees⁵	1,631	1,779	1,694	1,923	1,517	1,834	1,563
10	Other private services⁵	12,347	11,057	11,121	11,482	10,919	9,877	10,526
11	U.S. government miscellaneous services	47	53	53	54	50	51	54
12	Income receipts	42,405	42,281	41,679	36,064	27,722	28,586	28,963
13	Income receipts on U.S.-owned assets abroad	42,349	42,224	41,622	36,007	27,666	28,530	28,907
14	Direct investment receipts	18,049	20,274	18,883	14,302	12,039	14,684	16,238
15	Other private receipts	24,285	21,894	22,725	21,644	15,616	13,791	12,648
16	U.S. government receipts	15	56	14	60	11	55	21
17	Compensation of employees	57	57	57	57	56	56	56
18	Imports of goods and services and income payments	-140,585	-148,718	-153,582	-127,739	-101,006	-101,495	-108,853
19	Imports of goods and services	-107,898	-118,856	-122,581	-100,527	-80,316	-83,268	-91,898
20	Goods, balance of payments basis²	-90,740	-101,134	-104,958	-82,950	-63,702	-67,251	-75,313
21	Services³	-17,157	-17,722	-17,623	-17,576	-16,614	-16,017	-16,585
22	Direct defense expenditures	-86	-84	-115	-80	-77	-77	-80
23	Travel	-7,092	-6,452	-6,467	-6,010	-6,560	-5,607	-5,862
24	Passenger fares	-925	-866	-934	-1,085	-865	-763	-703
25	Other transportation	-1,873	-2,007	-2,133	-1,785	-1,479	-1,383	-1,440
26	Royalties and license fees⁵	-98	-92	-118	-121	-89	-111	-114
27	Other private services⁵	-6,931	-8,068	-7,696	-8,342	-7,393	-7,914	-8,218
28	U.S. government miscellaneous services	-153	-153	-160	-153	-150	-161	-168
29	Income payments	-32,687	-29,861	-31,001	-27,212	-20,689	-18,227	-16,956
30	Income payments on foreign-owned assets in the United States	-30,946	-28,018	-29,010	-25,150	-19,002	-16,479	-15,053
31	Direct investment payments	-858	-921	-1,379	222	253	423	68
32	Other private payments	-24,780	-21,932	-22,624	-20,678	-15,168	-13,482	-12,319
33	U.S. government payments	-5,308	-5,165	-5,007	-4,694	-4,087	-3,420	-2,802
34	Compensation of employees	-1,742	-1,843	-1,991	-2,062	-1,688	-1,748	-1,902
35	Unilateral current transfers, net	-8,031	-8,674	-8,367	-8,808	-7,768	-7,724	-8,008
36	U.S. government grants⁴	-466	-565	-727	-666	-783	-690	-964
37	U.S. government pensions and other transfers	-198	-204	-206	-206	-202	-220	-222
38	Private remittances and other transfers⁶	-7,367	-7,904	-7,434	-7,937	-6,782	-6,814	-6,823
	Capital account
39	Capital account transactions, net	-66	-88	1,492	-87	-89	-111	-78
	Financial account
40	U.S.-owned assets abroad, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial outflow (-))	-18,391	11,236	16,115	-92,800	3,021	66,876	-24,366
41	U.S. official reserve assets	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
42	Gold⁷	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	20	189	36	153	39	-3,510	-5
47	U.S. credits and other long-term assets	-38	-21	-51	-16	-12	-444	-62
48	Repayments on U.S. credits and other long-term assets⁸	76	188	63	167	54	152	62
49	U.S. foreign currency holdings and U.S. short-term assets	-19	22	24	2	-3	-3,218	-5
50	U.S. private assets	-18,410	11,047	16,079	-92,953	2,982	70,387	-24,361
51	Direct investment	-20,786	-16,994	-8,259	-18,453	-16,063	-6,810	-15,775
52	Foreign securities	-5,457	-10,677	-25,418	651	-18,065	-1,767	-1,427
53	U.S. claims on unaffiliated foreigners reported by U.S. nonbanking concerns	54,774	12,366	-36,598	37,281	11,367	10,670	50,758
54	U.S. claims reported by U.S. banks and securities brokers¹⁴	-46,941	26,352	86,354	-112,432	25,743	68,294	-57,917
55	Foreign-owned assets in the United States, excluding financial derivatives (increase/financial inflow (+))	19,895	-16,475	17,617	3,251	-58,962	-35,510	77,152
56	Foreign official assets in the United States	12,980	27,303	-14,247	-9,117	-6,914	958	-3,380
57	U.S. government securities	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
58	U.S. Treasury securities⁹	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
59	Other¹⁰	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
60	Other U.S. government liabilities¹¹	169	6	47	30	170	36	146
61	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks and securities brokers	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
62	Other foreign official assets¹²	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
63	Other foreign assets in the United States	6,915	-43,778	31,864	12,368	-52,048	-36,468	80,532
64	Direct investment	2,736	22,588	3,625	-1,504	6,123	-486	-604
65	U.S. Treasury securities	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
66	U.S. securities other than U.S. Treasury securities	-20,311	5,764	-4,078	-50,143	-18,979	14,342	3,860
67	U.S. currency	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	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)	(¹⁷)
69	U.S. liabilities reported by U.S. banks and securities brokers¹⁵	32,487	-70,631	-45,106	48,470	-70,072	-57,656	77,793
70	Financial derivatives, net	1,816	4,441	10,332	280	4,039	-429	n.a.
71	Statistical discrepancy (sum of above items with sign reversed)¹⁶	12,892	19,295	-27,925	96,477	57,500	-26,056	-47,309
	Memoranda:
72	Balance on goods (lines 3 and 20)	-23,949	-27,517	-26,754	-13,758	-9,054	-12,017	-14,314
73	Balance on services (lines 4 and 21)	6,115	5,362	6,813	6,595	4,280	4,613	4,916
74	Balance on goods and services (lines 2 and 19)	-17,834	-22,155	-19,941	-7,164	-4,774	-7,404	-9,398
75	Balance on income (lines 12 and 29)	9,718	12,419	10,678	8,852	7,032	10,359	12,008
76	Unilateral current transfers, net (line 35)	-8,031	-8,674	-8,367	-8,808	-7,768	-7,724	-8,008
77	Balance on current account (lines 1, 18, and 35 or lines 74, 75, and 76)¹³	-16,146	-18,409	-17,630	-7,120	-5,510	-4,770	-5,399

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