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Table 1a: Quarterly balance of payments of the euro area with a geographical breakdown

(EUR billions, unless otherwise indicated; transactions in Q3 2007, non-seasonally adjusted data)

Total European Union 27 (outside the euro area) Canada Japan Switzerland United States
Total Denmark Sweden UnitedKingdom Other EUcountries EUinsti-tutions
Current account 9.8 32.5 2.7 1.1 27.8 14.9 -14.0 1.7 -8.6 1.7 15.0
credit 650.8 246.6 13.6 19.9 132.0 71.7 9.3 8.9 13.7 42.0 100.1
debit 641.1 214.1 10.9 18.8 104.2 56.8 23.3 7.2 22.3 40.3 85.1
Goods 18.5 32.8 1.4 1.7 16.9 12.8 0.0 1.4 -4.5 2.4 17.0
credit (exports) 375.3 136.5 8.4 13.1 58.9 56.1 0.0 4.7 8.3 20.8 49.1
as percentage of total 100.0 36.4 2.2 3.5 15.7 15.0 0.0 1.2 2.2 5.5 13.1
debit (imports) 356.8 103.7 7.0 11.4 42.0 43.3 0.0 3.3 12.8 18.4 32.1
as percentage of total 100.0 29.1 1.9 3.2 11.8 12.1 0.0 0.9 3.6 5.1 9.0
Services 14.4 11.1 0.4 0.5 9.9 -1.2 1.5 0.0 0.7 3.8 -2.1
credit (exports) 126.2 48.0 2.8 3.3 32.4 8.0 1.6 2.0 2.7 12.5 20.2
as percentage of total 100.0 38.1 2.2 2.6 25.7 6.3 1.2 1.6 2.1 9.9 16.0
debit (imports) 111.8 36.9 2.4 2.9 22.5 9.1 0.0 2.0 2.0 8.7 22.3
as percentage of total 100.0 33.0 2.1 2.6 20.1 8.2 0.0 1.8 1.8 7.8 19.9
Income 2.1 3.8 0.8 -1.0 0.8 3.3 -0.2 0.6 -4.8 -4.5 0.1
credit 133.5 51.7 2.4 3.3 37.6 6.7 1.7 2.1 2.7 7.2 29.2
debit 131.4 47.9 1.5 4.4 36.8 3.4 1.8 1.5 7.4 11.7 29.1
of which: investment income 1.0 4.3 0.8 -1.0 0.7 4.9 -1.1 0.6 -4.8 -6.0 0.1
credit 129.3 50.2 2.3 3.3 37.2 6.6 0.8 2.1 2.6 5.6 28.8
debit 128.3 45.9 1.5 4.3 36.5 1.7 1.8 1.5 7.4 11.5 28.8
Current transfers -25.2 -15.3 0.0 0.0 0.3 -0.1 -15.4 -0.3 -0.0 0.0 0.0
credit 15.9 10.3 0.1 0.2 3.1 0.9 6.0 0.1 0.1 1.6 1.7
debit 41.1 25.6 0.1 0.2 2.8 1.0 21.5 0.4 0.1 1.5 1.6
Capital account 1.2 3.0 0.0 -0.1 -0.1 -0.1 3.2 -0.0 0.0 -0.2 -0.2
credit 4.1 3.6 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 3.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1
debit 2.8 0.6 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.3
Financial account balance1) 90.6 - - - - - - - - - -
Direct investment -37.8 -15.8 -0.2 -1.1 -10.6 -3.9 0.0 -5.0 5.9 0.3 -2.9
Abroad -109.4 -34.1 -0.8 -2.1 -24.3 -6.8 0.0 -5.4 -0.7 -3.6 -25.3
Equity/reinvested earnings -75.5 -8.7 -0.3 -0.8 -3.3 -4.3 0.0 -3.0 -0.4 0.7 -25.4
Other capital -33.9 -25.4 -0.5 -1.3 -21.1 -2.5 0.0 -2.4 -0.3 -4.3 0.1
In the euro area 71.6 18.3 0.6 1.0 13.8 2.9 0.0 0.4 6.6 3.9 22.4
Equity/reinvested earnings 43.2 9.9 -0.9 1.6 7.4 1.8 0.0 0.1 6.5 3.1 15.3
Other capital 28.5 8.4 1.6 -0.6 6.4 1.1 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.8 7.1
Portfolio investment 76.2 - - - - - - - - - -
Assets -34.0 -12.9 0.6 0.2 -12.2 1.3 -2.8 -0.9 5.1 2.8 -3.0
Equity -7.8 4.9 0.3 0.3 3.6 0.7 -0.0 -1.1 3.4 3.1 0.0
Debt -26.3 -17.7 0.3 -0.1 -15.7 0.6 -2.8 0.2 1.7 -0.3 -3.0
Bonds and notes -43.7 -8.5 0.4 -0.0 -5.7 -0.4 -2.8 0.2 1.2 0.0 -11.6
Money market instruments 17.4 -9.3 -0.1 -0.1 -10.0 1.0 -0.0 -0.1 0.5 -0.3 8.6
Liabilities 110.2 - - - - - - - - - -
Equity 43.7 - - - - - - - - - -
Debt 66.5 - - - - - - - - - -
Bonds and notes 52.6 - - - - - - - - - -
Money market instruments 14.0 - - - - - - - - - -
Financial derivatives -32.5 - - - - - - - - - -
Other investment 88.2 117.2 -12.7 2.6 140.6 -23.5 10.2 5.5 -5.7 -10.7 45.7
Assets -227.8 0.5 -11.4 2.2 34.3 -24.8 0.2 -2.3 2.6 5.9 -141.8
General government 18.2 17.6 0.6 0.2 16.4 0.0 0.5 0.2 0.0 -0.0 0.0
MFIs -79.2 8.6 -13.1 0.6 45.8 -24.5 -0.2 -2.3 0.5 3.8 -4.4
Other sectors -166.8 -25.7 1.1 1.4 -27.9 -0.2 -0.1 -0.2 2.0 2.1 -137.4
Liabilities 316.1 116.7 -1.3 0.5 106.3 1.2 10.0 7.8 -8.3 -16.6 187.5
General government 3.9 5.7 -0.0 0.0 1.3 -0.0 4.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2
MFIs 130.5 90.2 -1.6 1.2 85.8 -0.4 5.2 7.3 -7.4 -17.2 44.9
Other sectors 181.6 20.8 0.3 -0.7 19.2 1.6 0.4 0.5 -0.9 0.5 142.4
Reserve assets -3.6 - - - - - - - - - -
Errors and omissions -101.6 - - - - - - - - - -

Table 1a: Quarterly balance of payments of the euro area with a geographical breakdown

(EUR billions, unless otherwise indicated; transactions in Q3 2007, non-seasonally adjusted data)

Offshore financial centres Internationalorganisations Other countries
of which:Hong Kong of which:Brazil China2) India Russia
Source: ECB.
( 1 ) Financial account: inflows (+); outflows (−). Reserve assets: increase (−); decrease (+).
( 2 ) Data for mainland China, excluding Hong Kong.
Current account - - - -32.6 - - - -
credit - - - 239.5 8.0 20.1 7.7 23.6
debit - - - 272.0 - - - -
Goods - - - -30.6 -1.3 -28.0 1.0 -4.5
credit (exports) - - - 155.9 4.9 15.7 5.6 17.5
as percentage of total - - - 41.6 1.3 4.2 1.5 4.7
debit (imports) - - - 186.5 6.2 43.7 4.6 22.0
as percentage of total - - - 52.3 1.7 12.2 1.3 6.2
Services - - - 0.9 0.4 1.0 0.8 1.0
credit (exports) - - - 40.8 1.3 3.6 1.6 3.1
as percentage of total - - - 32.3 1.1 2.9 1.2 2.4
debit (imports) - - - 39.9 0.9 2.6 0.8 2.1
as percentage of total - - - 35.7 0.8 2.3 0.7 1.9
Income - - - 6.8 - - - -
credit - - - 40.7 1.7 0.8 0.5 3.0
debit - - - 33.8 - - - -
of which: investment income - - - 6.8 - - - -
credit - - - 40.0 1.7 0.8 0.5 3.0
debit - - - 33.2 - - - -
Current transfers - - - -9.7 -0.3 -0.6 -0.2 -0.1
credit - - - 2.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1
debit - - - 11.8 0.4 0.7 0.2 0.1
Capital account - - - -1.4 -0.0 -0.0 -0.0 -0.0
credit - - - 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
debit - - - 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Financial account balance1) - - - - - - - -
Direct investment -10.8 -0.9 -0.0 -9.5 -1.2 -0.5 0.3 -2.8
Abroad -25.2 -1.8 -0.0 -15.1 -1.3 -0.7 0.0 -3.1
Equity/reinvested earnings -23.5 -1.0 0.0 -15.3 -0.8 -0.3 -1.5 -2.3
Other capital -1.7 -0.8 -0.0 0.2 -0.5 -0.4 1.6 -0.8
In the euro area 14.4 0.9 -0.0 5.6 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.3
Equity/reinvested earnings 7.4 0.0 -0.0 0.9 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.3
Other capital 7.0 0.9 0.0 4.7 0.0 0.1 0.2 -0.0
Portfolio investment - - - - - - - -
Assets -3.0 -2.2 -0.8 -21.3 0.8 3.0 -2.4 -0.5
Equity -8.4 -2.3 0.0 -9.8 -2.6 3.0 -2.3 -0.3
Debt 5.4 0.2 -0.8 -11.5 3.4 0.0 -0.1 -0.2
Bonds and notes -0.8 0.2 -0.0 -24.2 -0.6 0.1 -0.2 -0.1
Money market instruments 6.2 -0.1 -0.8 12.7 4.0 -0.0 0.1 -0.2
Other investment -39.7 5.5 -2.8 -21.2 -5.7 5.2 -3.5 -20.2
Assets -54.5 -6.7 -1.2 -37.0 -5.3 3.9 0.4 -13.1
General government 0.0 -0.0 -0.2 0.5 -0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1
MFIs -50.7 -6.2 -1.1 -33.6 -4.4 3.8 -0.4 -10.6
Other sectors -3.8 -0.5 0.0 -3.8 -0.9 0.1 0.7 -2.6
Liabilities 14.8 12.2 -1.6 15.7 -0.4 1.3 -3.8 -7.1
General government 0.0 0.0 -1.5 -0.5 0.0 -0.0 0.0 0.0
MFIs 13.3 12.1 -0.1 -0.6 -0.6 0.8 -3.7 -7.4
Other sectors 1.5 0.0 0.0 16.8 0.2 0.5 -0.1 0.3
Reserve assets - - - - - - - -
Errors and omissions - - - - - - - -