U.S. International Transactions: First Quarter of 2017

摘要

THE U.S. CURRENT-ACCOUNT DEFICIT - a net measure of transactions between the United States and the rest of the world in goods, services, primary income, and secondary income - increased to $116.8 billion (preliminary) in the first quarter of 2017 from $114.0 billion (revised) in the fourth quarter of 2016 (chart 1; see also table A on page 2). The deficit increased to 2.5 percent of current-dollar gross domestic product (GDP) from 2.4 percent in the fourth quarter.