November 19, 2025

Split U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, August 2025 and Services Supplied Through Affiliates, 2023

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, August 2025

The U.S. goods and services trade deficit decreased in August 2025 according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. The deficit decreased from $78.2 billion in July (revised) to $59.6 billion in August, as exports increased and imports decreased. The goods deficit decreased $18.1 billion in August to $85.6 billion. The services surplus increased $0.5 billion in August to $26.1 billion.

Services Supplied Through Affiliates, 2023

For 2024, U.S. exports of services were $1,152.7 billion, and U.S. imports of services were $840.9 billion. For 2023—the latest year for which statistics are available—services supplied to foreign persons through foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational enterprises (MNEs) were $2,201.8 billion, and services supplied to U.S. persons through U.S. affiliates of foreign MNEs were $1,586.6 billion. Affiliates supplied most of the services provided to foreign persons by the United States and to U.S. persons by foreign markets in 2023.

Principal Federal Economic Indicators

Gross Domestic Product
Q2 2025 (3rd)
+3.8%
Personal Income
August 2025
+0.4%
International Trade in Goods and Services
August 2025
-$59.6 B
International Transactions
Q2 2025
-$251.3 B

Noteworthy

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U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services April 1999

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Foreign Investors' Spending to Acquire or Establish U.S. Businesses, 1998

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Foreign investors' spending to acquire or establish U.S. businesses surged to a record $201.0 billion in 1998 from $69.7 billion in 1997, according to estimates by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. This spending, which includes both outlays made directly by foreign investors and outlays made through their existing U.S. affiliates, almost tripled in 1998, following a decrease of 13 percent in 1997 and an increase of 40…

Gross State Product, New Estimates for 1997 and Revised Estimates for 1995-96

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Personal Income, April 1999

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Gross Domestic Product, 1st quarter 1999 (preliminary); Corporate Profits, 1st quarter 1999 (preliminary)

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Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 4.1 percent in the first quarter of 1999, according to preliminary estimates released by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter, real GDP increased 6.0 percent. Real GDP increased…

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services for March 1999

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1997 Local Area Personal Income for counties, metropolitan areas, and nonmetropolitan areas

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1997 LOCAL AREA PERSONAL INCOME For Counties, Metropolitan Areas, and Nonmetropolitan Areas

Personal income in metropolitan counties grew 5.8 percent in 1997, substantially faster than the 4.7 percent growth of personal income in nonmetropolitan counties, according to estimates released today by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. The faster metro county growth in 1997 reversed the pattern in 1996, when personal…

Personal Income, March 1999

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Gross Domestic Product, 1st quarter 1999 (advance estimate)

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NOTE: On May 13, 1999, Table 2 of this news release was recalculated; the recalculated table is here.

State Personal Income, 4th quarter 1998 and Per Capita Personal Income, 1998 (preliminary)

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1998 STATE PER CAPITA PERSONAL INCOME and STATE PERSONAL INCOME (Preliminary)

North Dakota and Colorado led the nation in per capita personal income growth in 1998, according to preliminary estimates released by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis.