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TABLE 99 U.S.
Trade Balance in Transportation-Related Services: 1990-2002
Transportation-related services exports minus imports
(Millions of current dollars)
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| Trade
balance |
1,842 |
3,498 |
3,779 |
2,552 |
1,670 |
3,292 |
3,284 |
781 |
-4,632 |
-8,753 |
-15,007 |
-14,928 |
-13,878 |
NOTE: Detail service type data are not available
in inflation-adjusted terms. Transportation services include passenger fares
and freight and port services. It excludes receipts and payments for travel
services, which includes purchases of goods and services (e.g. food, lodging,
recreation, gifts, entertainment, and any incidental expense on a foreign
visit). These data have not been adjusted for inflation because there is no
specific deflator available for transportation-related services. In addition,
it is difficult to control for trading partners' inflation rates as well as
currency exchange fluctuations when adjusting the value of internationally
traded goods and services for inflation.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau
of Transportation Statistics, calculation based on data from U.S. Department
of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, International Transactions Accounts
data, available at http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/di1.htm, as of April 2003.
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