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Interest and dividends received or paid abroad, purchases and sales of financial or real assets abroad,

and so forth.

Stated differently, any nation’s balance of payments shows the balance between all the payments

It receives from foreign countries and all the payments which it makes to them.

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13 Мировая экономика

For example, the balance of export-import transactions in Russia in billions of dollars in 1999—

2000—2004 Looked like this:

1999 2000 2004

(1) merchandise exports 62.0 89.2 181.5

(2) merchandise imports . 21.9 22.3 75,6

That is, in Russia exports exceeded imports, with a sharp fuel and raw materials trend of exports

(about 85 per cent) being observed. But to comprehend the state of a nation’s balance of payments,

this comparison of exports and imports is not enough. It is necessary to compare current accounts

with the capital account balance.

A simplified balance of payments for the United States for one year at the end of the 20th

century looks in the following way:

Table 14.1. The United States balance of payments ($ billions)

1.Current account Credits Debits

A.Goods

and services 28959 3283841. Gods 190859 2494732.Services 910 7891 2.1.Transportation 15436 1859 2.2.Travel 15406 30864 2.3.Comunications 202 1928 2.4.Consfuction 28 132.5.Insurance 637 821 2.6 Financial 1591 349 2.7. Computer and information 575 194 2.8.Royafcies licence fes 6564567 2.9.Other busines 27850 13518 2.10.Personal exiturai and recreational 183792.1.Government 2034 2397 B. Income 139656

134931.Compensation of employes 17102.investment Income 138485 12393 2.1Direct Investment 60857 25635 2.2. Portfolio 37427 36350 2.3 Other Investment (Including earings on reserve asets) 40201 50408 C. Curentransfers 12819 235321.Central government 402 12302.Other sectors 8797 1232Total curent acount 42434654092. Capital and financial acounts A.3584 16041.transfers 3409 12182.Acquisition/disposalof non-produced. asets 175 386B.Financial acount 52571 513731.Direct investment 3956 4396Abroad 4396 1.1.Equity capital 17904 1.2. Reinvested earnings 27591.3.Other сарital -149 In United Kingdom 3956 1.1.Equity capital 2313 943 1.3.78102.Portfolio Investment 9346 142425Asets 142425 2.1 Equity securities 56327 2.2.Debt 86098Liabilities 9346 -834 1016903.Financial derivatives (net) 78754.Other investment 392859 319241Asets 3192414.1Trade credits -254.2Loans 1864 3 Curency andeposts 2081804.4 Other asets 10Liabilities

3928594.1Trade credits -4.2Loans 917064.3 Curency andeposts 301234.4 Other liabilities 815.Reserve asets 1965.1.Monetary gold 25.2.Special drawing rights 35.3Reserve position in the IMF 585.4.Foreign exchange 809Total capital and financial acounts 529351537Total curent, 97178980746Net erors omisions 89571.transaction on direct investment abroad represents claims afiliated enteiprises les to enterprises2.transactions United Kingdom investors investorsS ource: T he Pink Bok 205

Let us analyze the curent acount. The top portion of Table 14.1

sumarizes the United States’ trade in curently produced gods and services and is therefore

caled the curent acount. Items 1 and 2 show American exports and imports of merchandise (gods) respectively for one year. Note that we have designated American exports with a plus sign and imports with a minus sign. The reason for this is that American merchandisexports (and other export-type transactions) are credits in that

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they create or earn supplies of foreign exchange. As we have seen in our discussion of how international

trade is financed, any export-type transaction which obligates foreigners to make “inpayments”

to the country through its banks, generates supplies of foreign monies. Conversely, the imports (and

other import-type transactions) are debits in that they use up foreign exchange. Again, our earlier

discussion of trade financing indicated to us that imports obligate to make “outpayments” to the rest

of the world which draw down available supplies of foreign currencies held by banks.

Trade balance. In the given year, observing items 1 and 2 in Table T. 14.1 we find that the USA

merchandise exports of $251 billion did not earn the United States enough foreign monies to finance

American merchandise imports of $410 billion. Specifically, the merchandise balance of trade or, more

simply, the trade balance refers to the difference between a country’s merchandise exports and merchandise