U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
NEWS
U.S. Department of Commerce * Washington, DC 20230


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
8:30 A.M. EDT THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2011

For information on goods contact:
For information on services contact:
U.S. Census Bureau:
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
Matthew Przybocki
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Technical:  Edward Dozier
202-606-9559
Maria Iseman
301-763-2311
Media:       Ralph Stewart
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CB11-98, BEA11-26, FT-900 (11-04)

U.S. INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES
APRIL 2011




Goods and Services
    
    The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of 
Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, 
announced today that total April exports of $175.6 billion 
and imports of $219.2 billion resulted in a goods and services 
deficit of $43.7 billion, down from $46.8 billion in March, 
revised.  April exports were $2.2 billion more than March 
exports of $173.4 billion.  April imports were $1.0 billion less 
than March imports of $220.2 billion.
    
    In April, the goods deficit decreased $3.0 billion from 
March to $58.1 billion, and the services surplus increased $0.2 
billion to $14.4 billion.  Exports of goods increased $2.0 billion 
to $126.4 billion, and imports of goods decreased $1.0 billion 
to $184.5 billion.  Exports of services increased $0.2 billion to 
$49.1 billion, and imports of services were virtually unchanged 
at $34.7 billion.
    
    The goods and services deficit increased $2.2 billion from 
April 2010 to April 2011.  Exports were up $27.8 billion, or 
18.8 percent, and imports were up $30.0 billion, or 15.9 
percent.
    
Goods (Census Basis)
    
    The March to April increase in exports of goods reflected 
increases in industrial supplies and materials ($2.0 billion); 
capital goods ($1.2 billion); and consumer goods ($0.3 billion).   
Decreases occurred in automotive vehicles, parts,  
  

 
and engines ($0.8 billion); other goods ($0.5 billion); and 
foods, feeds, and beverages ($0.2 billion).

    The March to April decrease in imports of goods reflected 
decreases in automotive vehicles, parts, and engines ($2.8 
billion) and industrial supplies and materials ($1.5 billion). 
Increases occurred in consumer goods ($2.1 billion); capital 
goods ($0.6 billion); foods, feeds, and beverages ($0.4 billion); 
and other goods ($0.2 billion).
    
    The April 2010 to April 2011 increase in exports of goods 
reflected increases in industrial supplies and materials ($11.2 
billion); capital goods ($5.1 billion); foods, feeds, and 
beverages ($2.7 billion); consumer goods ($1.6 billion); 
automotive vehicles, parts, and engines ($1.4 billion); and 
other goods ($0.1 billion).



  The April 2010 to April 2011 increase in imports of goods 
reflected increases in industrial supplies and materials ($11.4 
billion); consumer goods ($6.1 billion); capital goods ($5.7 
billion); automotive vehicles, parts, and engines ($1.6 billion); 
foods, feeds, and beverages ($1.5 billion); and other goods 
($0.9 billion).
    
Services

    Services exports increased $0.2 billion from March to 
April.  The increase reflected increases in travel, other private 
services (which includes items such as business, professional, 
and technical services, insurance services, and financial 
services), and passenger fares. Changes in the other categories 
of services exports were small. 
    
	Services imports were virtually unchanged from March to 
April.  Changes in all categories of services imports were small 
and mostly offsetting.
								
	The April 2010 to April 2011 increase in exports of 
services was $5.3 billion.  The largest increases were in other 
private services ($2.6 billion) and travel ($1.3 billion).  Within 
other private services, the largest increases were in business, 
professional, and technical services and financial services.
	
	The April 2010 to April 2011 increase in imports of 
services was $2.1 billion.  The largest increases were in other 
private services ($0.7 billion) and travel ($0.5 billion).  Within 
other private services, the largest increases were in business, 
professional, and technical services and financial services.
    
Goods and Services Moving Average

    For the three months ending in April, exports of goods and 
services averaged $171.4 billion, while imports of goods and 
services averaged $216.9 billion, resulting in an average trade 
deficit of $45.5 billion.  For the three months ending in March, 
the average trade deficit was $46.9 billion, reflecting average 
exports of $168.7 billion and average imports of $215.7 
billion.
 

Selected Not Seasonally Adjusted Goods Details
    
    The April figures show surpluses, in billions of dollars, with 
Hong Kong $2.6 ($2.7 for March), Singapore $1.2 ($0.9), 
Australia $1.1 ($1.1), and Egypt $0.5 ($0.4).  Deficits were 
recorded, in billions of dollars, with China $21.6 ($18.1), 
OPEC $9.6 ($10.8), European Union $7.5 ($9.0), Mexico  $5.5    
($6.2),    Germany   $3.8   ($4.6),   Japan   $3.6   ($6.1), Ireland 
$3.0 ($2.6), Venezuela $2.8 ($3.0), Nigeria $2.5,           ($2.5), 
Canada $2.5 ($2.6), Taiwan $1.2 ($0.6) and Korea $1.0 
($0.6).
    
    Advanced technology products exports were $23.0 billion 
in April and imports were $30.1 billion, resulting in a deficit of 
$7.0 billion.  April exports were $2.2 billion less than the $25.3 
billion in March, while April imports were $2.1 billion less than 
the $32.2 billion in March.
    
Revisions 
    
    For March goods on a Census basis, not seasonally 
adjusted, exports were revised up $0.3 billion and imports 
were revised down $0.3 billion. Goods carry-over in April was 
$0.2 billion (0.1 percent) for exports and $0.6 billion (0.3 
percent) for imports.  For March, revised export carry-over 
and revised import carry-over were virtually zero.
    
    For March goods on a balance of payment basis, exports 
were revised down $0.5 billion and imports were revised down 
$1.5 billion.
   
    Services exports for March were revised up $1.2 billion to 
$48.9 billion, mostly reflecting an upward revision in royalties 
and license fees.  Services imports were revised up $0.9 billion 
to $34.7 billion, mostly reflecting upward revisions in royalties 
and license fees, other transportation (which includes freight 
and port services), and travel. 
    
    Goods and services exports and imports for all months 
through March 2011 shown in this release reflect the 
incorporation of annual revisions to the goods and services 
series in the U.S. international transactions accounts.  See the 
Notice in this release for a description of major revisions to 
goods and services exports and imports.
    



NOTICE
In this release and in the accompanying U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: Annual 
Revision 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) are jointly 
publishing revised statistics on both U.S. trade in goods and U.S. trade in services beginning with 1999.  
The revised statistics on goods and services will also be included in the annual revision of the U.S. 
international transactions accounts (ITAs), which BEA will release on June 16, 2011.
The annual revision has not changed the overall trend in the goods and services balance.  On an annual 
basis, the goods and services deficit was revised less than 1 percent for nearly all years; the exception 
was 2009, when it was revised up 1.7 percent.  For 2010, the goods and services deficit was revised up 
$4.3 billion, or 0.9 percent.  The goods deficit was revised down for all years; the services surplus was 
revised up for 1999-2007 and down for 2008-2010.

Goods
The 2010 not seasonally adjusted Census-basis goods statistics were revised to redistribute monthly data 
that arrived too late for inclusion in the month of transaction but that were included, initially, in the 
month in which the data were received.  In addition, corrections were made to previously published 2010 
statistics.  Seasonal and trading-day adjustments were then recalculated, and the seasonally adjusted 
current-dollar series were revised beginning with 2008.  The chain-weighted dollar series were also 
revised beginning with statistics for 2008.
Balance of payments (BOP) adjustments  adjustments that BEA applies to Census-basis goods exports 
and imports to convert them to a BOP basis  were revised beginning with statistics for 1999.  These 
adjustments are combined and presented as Net Adjustments in this report.  Adjustments to low-value 
exports and imports were introduced for 1999-2006 and were revised for 2007-2009.  BOP adjustments 
for goods procured in ports were revised for exports beginning with statistics for 2007 and for imports 
beginning with statistics for 2004.  BOP adjustments that exhibit significant seasonal patterns are now 
seasonally adjusted for both exports and imports beginning with statistics for 1999.
Services
Beginning with statistics for 1999, the following items were reclassified within the services accounts:  
fees for the rights to distribute film and television recordings from other private services to royalties and 
license fees; postal services from U.S. government miscellaneous services to other transportation; and 
cruise fares from passenger fares to travel (because cruise fares cover onboard expenditures for goods 
and services similar to land travel).  These reclassifications are part of a multiyear effort to align the ITAs 
with the most recent international guidelines for international economic accounts.  Information about 
BEAs 2011 annual revision of the ITAs and plans for implementing the new international standards 
were presented in the May 2011 issue of the Survey of Current Business.

Services exports were also revised because BEA has (1) adopted a new method for measuring 
expenditures in the United States of foreign residents who are working in the United States for less than 
one year and (2) excluded expenditures of foreign nationals who are working for international 
organizations located in the United States to more closely align with international guidelines.  Both of 
these changes resulted in revisions beginning with statistics for 1999.  Services imports were also revised 
because BEA has implemented a new method for measuring non-fuel expenditures of U.S. air carriers in 
foreign ports beginning with statistics for 2004.

In addition to the changes described above, services exports and imports were revised to incorporate 
updated source data, including newly available data from BEAs quarterly services surveys beginning 
with statistics for 2008 and initial results of BEAs benchmark survey of international financial services 
transactions beginning with statistics for 2007.


Changes to Countries
Effective with the release of May 2011 statistics on July 12, 2011, the U.S. International Trade in Goods 
and Services report will be revised to reflect changes to Netherlands Antilles. The new countries will be 
listed individually in exhibit 6 of the FT-900 supplement and added to the South/Central America country 
grouping in exhibit 14 of the FT-900 and exhibit 6 of the FT-900 supplement.

Removed
*	Netherlands Antilles
Added
*	Curacao
*	Sint Maarten
If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact the Data Dissemination Branch 
office on (301) 763-2311 or email at ftd.data.dissemination@census.gov . 


Table of Contents 

Seasonally Adjusted

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

1
Exhibit 2
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Three-month Moving Averages . . . . 
. . .

2
Exhibit 3
U.S. Services by Major Category  Exports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . .

3
Exhibit 4
U.S. Services by Major Category  Imports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . .

4
Exhibit 5
U.S. Trade in Goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . . .

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

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

7
Exhibit 8
Imports of Goods by End-Use Category and Commodity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . .

9
Exhibit 9
Exports, Imports, and Balance of Goods, Petroleum and Non-Petroleum End-Use 
Category Totals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . .


11
Exhibit 10
Real Exports and Imports of Goods by Principal End-Use Category (2005 Chain-
weighted dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . . .


12
Exhibit 11
Real Exports, Imports, and Balance of Goods, Petroleum and Non-Petroleum End-
Use Commodity Category Totals (2005 Chain-weighted dollars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . . . . .


13

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Exhibit 12
U.S. Trade in Goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . . .

14
Exhibit 13
Exports and Imports of Goods by Principal End-Use Category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . .

15
Exhibit 14
Exports, Imports, and Balance of Goods by Selected Countries and Areas . . . . . . . . 
. . . .

16
Exhibit 15
Exports and Imports of Goods by Principal SITC Commodities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . .

18
Exhibit 16
Exports, Imports, and Balance of Advanced Technology Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . . .

20
Exhibit 16a
Exports, Imports, and Balance of Advanced Technology Products by Technology
Group and Selected Countries and Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . . .


21
Exhibit 17
Imports of Energy-Related Petroleum Products, Including Crude Oil . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. .

22
Exhibit 18
Exports and Imports of Motor Vehicles and Parts by Selected Countries . . . . . . . . . . 
. . .

23
Information on Goods and Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
. . . .
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