NOTICE - Upcoming Changes to Release Text

With the release of “U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: October 2014” on December 5, 2014, the release text will be reorganized and streamlined to improve readability. With this change, the release text will present only seasonally adjusted data.

Other changes include:

Reorganized
• The discussion of the three-month moving average trade balance and the associated graph will appear on the first page of the release.
• The discussion of goods and services trade details will be integrated and presented in new sections on total exports and total imports.

Added
• Additional information for goods on a Census basis by detailed end-use commodity.
• A new section on real goods trade.
• A new section on quarterly goods and services trade by selected countries and areas, which will appear with the release of January, April, July, and October statistics.

Removed
• Detail on revisions to not seasonally adjusted goods on a Census basis; this detail will continue to be available in the Information section.
• The discussion of advanced technology products; this information will remain available in exhibits 16 and 16a.

A preview of the new structure reflecting data from “U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: July 2014” is available at: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/notices/Text-Preview.pdf

If you have questions or need additional information, please contact the International Trade Indicator Macro Analysis Branch of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Economic Indicators Division on (301) 763-2311 or at [email protected].