U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services -
Annual Revision for 2003

In this release and the accompanying "U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: April 2003," the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) are jointly publishing revised data on U.S. trade in goods for 2001-2003 and revised data for services for 1992-2003.

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Notice

In this release and the accompanying "U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: April 2004," the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) are jointly publishing revised data on U.S. trade in goods for 1992-2003 and the first three months of 2004 and revised data on services for 1992-2003 and the first three months of 2004.

Goods

The 2003 not seasonally adjusted Census-basis goods data were revised to eliminate 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 data. Once the redistributions of data to the proper month of transaction and corrections were completed, factors for seasonal adjustments and trading day adjustments were recomputed and the seasonally adjusted current-dollar series were revised for 2001-2003 and the first three months of 2004. Similar changes are made to the chain-weighted dollar series.

Beginning with this release and the "U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: April 2004" release, the U.S. Census Bureau and BEA are adjusting various import and export petroleum and petroleum products series for seasonal variation. The adjustments begin in 1992. The seasonally adjusted series contribute to a more accurate picture of seasonally adjusted total imports and total exports. The BEA will carry these adjustments through to the International Transactions Accounts and the National Income and Product Accounts.

Services

The services estimates were revised for 1992-2003 and the first three months of 2004. The revisions resulted from the incorporation of results from BEA's annual and quarterly surveys and from other newly available and updated source data. Revisions from these sources have an impact mostly on receipts and payments for other private services for 2002-2003 and the first three months of 2004.

In addition, BEA is introducing a definitional revision in the measure of insurance services, which is a component of the measure of "other private services." The revisions are for 1992-2003. The new measure treats the expected investment income on technical reserves of insurance companies as being paid to policyholders, who then pay it to insurance companies as a supplement to their premium payments. The change affects both exports and imports, although the change is much larger for imports than exports. This revision accounts for most of the revision to estimates of total services imports and total services exports in each year included in this release.

CONTENTS:

Seasonally Adjusted

• Exhibit 1: U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 2: U.S. Services by Major Category--Exports (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 3: U.S. Services by Major Category--Imports (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 4: U.S. Trade in Goods (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 5: Exports of Goods by Principal End-Use Category (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 5a: Imports of Goods by Principal End-Use Category (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 6: Exports of Goods by End-Use Category and Commodity (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 20k)
• Exhibit 7: Imports of Goods by End-Use Category and Commodity (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 20k)
• Exhibit 8: Petroleum and Non-Petroleum End-Use Category Totals (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 9: Real Exports of Goods by Principal End-Use Category (2000 Chain-weighted Dollars) (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 9a: Real Imports of Goods by Principal End-Use Category (2000 Chain-weighted Dollars) (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 10: Real Exports, Imports, and Balance of Goods, Petroleum and Non-Petroleum End-Use Commodity Category Totals (2000 Chain-weighted Dollars) (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)

Not Seasonally Adjusted

• Exhibit 11: U.S. Trade in Goods (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 12: Exports of Goods by Principal End-Use Category (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 12a: Imports of Goods by Principal End-Use Category (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 13: Exports, Imports, and Balance of Goods by Countries and Selected Areas
  • Year-end Totals (PDF, 40k) (TXT, 65k) (WK4, 65k)
  • Jan, Feb, Mar (PDF, 40k) (TXT, 65k) (WK4, 65k)
  • Apr, May, Jun (PDF, 40k) (TXT, 65k) (WK4, 65k)
  • Jul, Aug, Sep (PDF, 40k) (TXT, 65k) (WK4, 65k)
  • Oct, Nov, Dec (PDF, 40k) (TXT, 65k) (WK4, 65k)
• Exhibit 14: Exports and Imports of Goods by Principal SITC Commodity Groupings
  • Year-end Totals (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 20k)
  • Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 20k)
  • May, Jun, Jul, Aug (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 20k)
  • Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 20k)
• Exhibit 15: Exports, Imports, and Balance of Advanced Technology Products (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 16: Imports of Energy - Related Petroleum Products, Including Crude Oil (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 17: Exports and Imports of Motor Vehicles and Parts by Selected Countries
  • Year-end Totals (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
  • Jan, Feb, Mar (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
  • Apr, May, Jun (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
  • Jul, Aug, Sep (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
  • Oct, Nov, Dec (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)

1992-2000 Revisions

• Exhibit 18: U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services
  • 1992-2000 (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
    
• Exhibit 19: U.S. Services by Major Category - Exports
  • 1992-2000 (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)
• Exhibit 20: U.S. Services by Major Category - Imports
  • 1992-2000 (PDF, 15k) (TXT, 15k) (WK4, 15k)

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Compressed Files

• 2003 Final Revisions - Compressed Version (ZIP)
  • PDF files (ZIP, 350k) (1 file)
  • TXT files (ZIP, 130k) (41 individual files)
  • WK4 files (ZIP, 265k) (40 individual files)

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