U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, Annual Revision

Updates to Goods and Services

In this release and in the accompanying "U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, April 2026" release (FT-900), the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) are publishing revised statistics on trade in goods and services. With these releases, statistics on trade in goods are revised beginning with 2021, and statistics on trade in services are revised beginning with 1999.

Revised statistics on trade in goods reflect:

• Corrections and adjustments to previously published not seasonally adjusted statistics for goods on a Census basis.
• End-use reclassifications of several commodities.
• Recalculated seasonal and trading-day adjustments.
• Newly available and revised source data on balance of payments (BOP) adjustments, which are adjustments that BEA applies to goods on a Census basis to convert them to a BOP basis. See the "Goods (balance of payments basis)" section in the FT-900 explanatory notes for more information.

Revised statistics on trade in services reflect:

• Newly available and revised source data, primarily from BEA surveys of international services.
• Improvements to the method for estimating transport services.
• Corrections and adjustments to previously published not seasonally adjusted statistics.
• Recalculated seasonal adjustments.
• Revised temporal distributions of quarterly source data to monthly statistics. See the "Services" section in the FT-900 explanatory notes for more information.

The revised statistics for goods on a BOP basis and for services will also be included in the "U.S. International Transactions, 1st Quarter 2026 and Annual Update" report and in BEA's Interactive Data Application, both to be released by BEA on June 24, 2026. For more information, see "Preview of the 2026 Annual Update of the International Economic Accounts" in the Survey of Current Business.

If you have questions or need additional information, please contact the Census Bureau, Economic Indicators Division, International Trade Macro Analysis Branch, on 800-549-0595, option 4, or at [email protected] or BEA, Balance of Payments Division, at [email protected].