Director's Message

摘要

In this issue, we are pleased to present a preview of the 2020 annual updates to the U.S. international transactions accounts and the U.S. international investment position accounts, to be released in June. The updates will incorporate newly available and revised source data as well as new methodologies for several accounts, primarily in trade in services, and notable presentational changes. These improvements are the result of multiyear efforts by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) to research and develop enhanced statistics, with the goal of providing more timely, relevant, and accurate statistics to our users.