BEA introduced a new data table and other improvements on July 3, 2025, with the release of updated statistics through 2024 in the detailed annual tables on international services.
- The new table—“Table 2.4. U.S. Trade in Services, Expanded Geographic Detail”—presents total services exports, imports, and the balance for 237 countries and areas, 147 more than the 90 listed separately in tables 2.2 and 2.3, beginning with statistics for 2018.
- BEA added geographic and affiliation-type detail in tables 2.2, 2.3, and 3.2 for “postal services” and “road and other transport,” which are categories within transport services, and audiovisual services related to movies and television programming and audiovisual services related to books and sound recordings, which are categories within personal, cultural, and recreational services. The new detail begins with statistics for 2018.
- BEA also accelerated the availability of statistics on trade in services by service type and by employment size class in table 6.4, eliminating a two-year lag relative to BEA’s other detailed trade in services statistics.