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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Personal Income and Outlays, April 2023

| News Release

Personal income increased $80.1 billion (0.4 percent at a monthly rate) in April. Disposable personal income (DPI) increased $79.4 billion (0.4 percent). Personal outlays increased $156.0 billion (0.8 percent) and consumer spending increased $151.7 billion (0.8 percent). Personal saving was $802.1 billion and the personal saving rate—personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income—was 4.1 percent in April.

Personal Income and Outlays, April 2023

| The BEA Wire

Personal income increased $80.1 billion (0.4 percent at a monthly rate) in April. Disposable personal income (DPI) increased $79.4 billion (0.4 percent). Personal outlays increased $156.0 billion (0.8 percent) and consumer spending increased $151.7 billion (0.8 percent). Personal saving was $802.1 billion and the personal saving rate—personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income—was 4.1 percent in April.

Gross Domestic Product (Second Estimate) Corporate Profits (Preliminary Estimate) First Quarter 2023

| The BEA Wire

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.3 percent in the first quarter of 2023, according to the "second" estimate. In the fourth quarter of 2022, real GDP increased 2.6 percent. The GDP estimate for the first quarter was revised up 0.2 percentage point from the "advance" estimate, primarily reflecting an upward revision to inventory investment.

Gross Domestic Product (Second Estimate), Corporate Profits (Preliminary Estimate), First Quarter 2023

| News Release

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.3 percent in the first quarter of 2023, according to the “second” estimate. In the fourth quarter of 2022, real GDP increased 2.6 percent. The GDP estimate for the first quarter was revised up 0.2 percentage point from the “advance” estimate, primarily reflecting an upward revision to inventory investment. Profits decreased 5.1 percent at a quarterly rate in the first quarter…

Gross Domestic Product for the U.S. Virgin Islands, 2021

| News Release

Real gross domestic product (GDP) for the U.S. Virgin Islands increased 2.8 percent in 2021 after decreasing 1.9 percent in 2020. The increase in real GDP reflected increases in exports and personal consumption expenditures. These increases were partly offset by decreases in private inventory investment, private fixed investment, and government spending. Imports, a subtraction item in the calculation of GDP, also decreased.

Gross Domestic Product for the U.S. Virgin Islands, 2021

| The BEA Wire

Real gross domestic product (GDP) for the U.S. Virgin Islands increased 2.8 percent in 2021 after decreasing 1.9 percent in 2020, according to statistics released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The increase in real GDP reflected increases in exports and personal consumption expenditures. These increases were partly offset by decreases in private inventory investment, private fixed investment, and government spending.…

March 2023 Trade Gap is $64.2 Billion

| The BEA Wire

The U.S. goods and services trade deficit decreased from $70.6 billion in February (revised) to $64.2 billion in March, as exports increased and imports decreased. The goods deficit decreased $6.4 billion to $86.6 billion, and the services surplus decreased less than $0.1 billion to $22.4 billion.

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, March 2023

| News Release

The U.S. monthly international trade deficit decreased in March 2023 according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. The deficit decreased from $70.6 billion in February (revised) to $64.2 billion in March as exports increased and imports decreased. The goods deficit decreased $6.4 billion in March to $86.6 billion. The services surplus decreased less than $0.1 billion in March to $22.4 billion.

Patricia Abaroa Named New BEA Deputy Director

| The BEA Wire

Patricia Abaroa is the new Deputy Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, bringing decades of economic accounting experience to the post.

Personal Income and Outlays, March 2023

| The BEA Wire

Personal income increased $67.9 billion, or 0.3 percent at a monthly rate, while consumer spending increased $8.2 billion, or less than 0.1 percent, in March. The personal saving rate (that is, personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income) was 5.1 percent in March, compared with 4.8 percent in February.