With this release, the Bureau of the Census and the Bureau of the Economic 
Analysis are publishing revised U.S. goods and services trade statistics.

Goods

The 1998 unadjusted Census basis goods data were revised to eliminate 
"carry over" (that portion of the monthly statistics that arrives too late 
for inclusion in the transaction month) and to include errata data 
(corrections to the published monthly data).  The 1997 unadjusted Census 
basis goods data were also revised based on new source data for U.S.
imports of automobiles from Canada.  See Table 17a on page 58.  Once these 
corrections were completed, factors for seasonal adjustment,working day 
adjustment, and constant dollars were recomputed, and the seasonally 
adjusted and constant dollar series were revised for 1996, 1997, and 1998.

Services

The services account has been redefined in order to bring it into 
alignment with the concepts used in the U.S. national income and product 
accounts and into closer conformance with international guidelines 
established by the International Monetary Fund.   Compensation of foreign 
workers temporarily employed in the United States and of U.S. workers 
temporarily employed abroad, which until now has been included 
indistinguishably as a component of "Other private services", is removed 
from both services receipts and payments for all time periods shown in this 
release.  (The amounts removed are reclassified to the income account of 
the international transactions accounts, which are released separately by 
the Bureau of Economic Analysis).  As a result of this redefinition, 
service payments are reduced more than service receipts, thereby 
increasing the services surplus.  Other revisions to the services account 
result from the use of newly developed data for travel payments for 1997-98, the incorporation of
results from annual surveys, and newly available and updated source data.  

Seasonally Adjusted

Exhibit 1  U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services. . . .........1

Exhibit 2  U.S. Services by Major Category--Exports. . . . . . .........2

Exhibit 3  U.S. Services by Major Category--Imports. . . . . . .........3

Exhibit 4  U.S. Trade in Goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........4

Exhibit 5  Exports of Goods by Principal End-Use Category. . . .........5

Exhibit 5a  Imports of Goods by Principal End-Use Category..............6   

Exhibit 6  Exports of Goods by End-Use Category and Commodity...........7

Exhibit 7  Imports of Goods by End-Use Category and Commodity...........9

Exhibit 8  Petroleum and Non-Petroleum End-Use Category Totals.........11

Exhibit 9  Exports of Goods by Principle End-Use
           Category (1992 Constant Dollars). . . . . ..................12

Exhibit 9a  Imports of Goods by Principle End-Use 
            Category (1992 Constant Dollars). . . . . . . . . ........ 13

Exhibit 10  Exports, Imports, and Balance of Goods, Petroleum and Non-
            Petroleum End-Use Commodity Category Totals 
            (1992 Constant Dollars)....................................14

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Exhibit 11  U.S. Trade in Goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........15

Exhibit 12  Exports of Goods by Principal End-Use Category . ......... 16

Exhibit 12a  Imports of Goods by Principal End-Use Category. ......... 17

Exhibit 13  Exports, Imports, and Trade Balance by Country and Area,
            Not Seasonally Adjusted - 1998 . . . . . . . . . ......... 18

Exhibit 14  Exports and Imports of Goods by Principal SITC 
            Commodity Groupings........................................43

Exhibit 15  Exports, Imports, and Balance of Advanced 
            Technology Products........................................51

Exhibit 16  Imports of Energy - Related Petroleum Products,  
            Including Crude Petroleum . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......52

Exhibit 17 Exports and Imports of Motor Vehicles and Parts 
           by Selected Countries - 1998................................53

Exhibit 17a 1997 Canadian Revision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........58

1992 through 1995 Revisions

Exhibit 18  U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services.............59

Exhibit 19  U.S. Services by Major Category - Exports. . . . . ........61

Exhibit 20 U.S. Services by Major Category - Imports . . . . . ........63

                                                     
SOURCE: Report FT900 (98) (CB-99-109), Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade
        Division, FINAL 1998. For more information, contact Haydn R. 
        Mearkle (301-457-2246), Foreign Trade Division.
