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Trade
Exports represent goods and services sold abroad. Imports measure purchases from abroad. The trade balance subtracts imports from exports; a deficit is not a direct measure of economic welfare.
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Reported snapshot · does not accrue with time
What makes this number move?
Reporting period: 2026-08
Changes when a new source observation is loaded.
Read the current joint Census/BEA FT900 release, goods and services, seasonally adjusted, balance-of-payments basis. Convert source billions to dollars; reconcile rounded imports minus exports to the published balance.
Monthly nominal values, rounded to $0.1 billion, subject to revision. Not a live transaction feed.
Reported snapshot · does not accrue with time
What makes this number move?
Reporting period: 2026-08
Changes when a new source observation is loaded.
Read the current joint Census/BEA FT900 release, goods and services, seasonally adjusted, balance-of-payments basis. Convert source billions to dollars; reconcile rounded imports minus exports to the published balance.
Monthly nominal values, rounded to $0.1 billion, subject to revision. Not a live transaction feed.
READING THIS BOARD
Is a trade deficit the same as a loss?
The trade balance is exports minus imports for the covered goods and services. It is not a company profit calculation.
Make a fair comparison
Compare the same coverage and period. Goods-only figures cannot be treated as the full goods-and-services balance.
How this number works
Goods and services exports
Read the current joint Census/BEA FT900 release, goods and services, seasonally adjusted, balance-of-payments basis. Convert source billions to dollars; reconcile rounded imports minus exports to the published balance.
Monthly nominal values, rounded to $0.1 billion, subject to revision. Not a live transaction feed.
Goods and services imports
Read the current joint Census/BEA FT900 release, goods and services, seasonally adjusted, balance-of-payments basis. Convert source billions to dollars; reconcile rounded imports minus exports to the published balance.
Monthly nominal values, rounded to $0.1 billion, subject to revision. Not a live transaction feed.
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Goods and services exports
- Period
- 2026-08
- Source release date
- 2026-10-06
- Version
- Official source · 2026-08
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-26T15:30:32.790Z
Goods and services imports
- Period
- 2026-08
- Source release date
- 2026-10-06
- Version
- Official source · 2026-08
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-26T15:30:32.790Z