Table 1a: Quarterly balance of payments of the euro area with a geographical breakdown
(EUR billions, unless otherwise indicated; transactions in Q3 2006, non-seasonally adjusted data)
| Total | European Union | Canada | Japan | Switzer-land | UnitedStates | Offshorefinancialcentres | Interna-tionalorgani-sations | Othercountries | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Denmark | Sweden | UnitedKingdom | Other EUcountries | EUinsti-tutions | ||||||||||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| ( 1 ) Financial account: inflows (+); outflows (−). Reserve assets: increase (−); decrease (+). | |||||||||||||||
| Current account | -4.5 | 22.1 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 21.9 | 11.7 | -14.1 | 1.7 | -6.6 | 2.1 | 16.1 | - | - | -39.9 | |
| credit | 571.5 | 208.4 | 11.9 | 17.4 | 114.2 | 55.3 | 9.6 | 7.6 | 13.5 | 36.3 | 94.2 | - | - | 211.5 | |
| debit | 576.0 | 186.3 | 10.0 | 16.7 | 92.3 | 43.6 | 23.7 | 5.9 | 20.1 | 34.2 | 78.1 | - | - | 251.3 | |
| Goods | 8.0 | 25.7 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 14.7 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 1.6 | -3.8 | 2.6 | 18.1 | - | - | -36.3 | |
| credit (exports) | 341.0 | 118.2 | 7.6 | 11.8 | 55.7 | 43.2 | 0.0 | 4.4 | 8.6 | 19.0 | 49.4 | - | - | 141.4 | |
| as percentage of total | 100.0 | 34.7 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 16.3 | 12.7 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 2.5 | 5.6 | 14.5 | - | - | 41.5 | |
| debit (imports) | 333.0 | 92.5 | 6.7 | 10.7 | 41.0 | 34.2 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 12.4 | 16.5 | 31.2 | - | - | 177.6 | |
| as percentage of total | 100.0 | 27.8 | 2.0 | 3.2 | 12.3 | 10.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 3.7 | 4.9 | 9.4 | - | - | 53.3 | |
| Services | 10.7 | 9.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 8.4 | -1.1 | 1.3 | -0.0 | 1.0 | 3.1 | -2.1 | - | - | -1.0 | |
| credit (exports) | 114.4 | 42.4 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 29.7 | 5.8 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 2.8 | 10.7 | 20.2 | - | - | 36.6 | |
| as percentage of total | 100.0 | 37.0 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 26.0 | 5.1 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 9.4 | 17.6 | - | - | 32.0 | |
| debit (imports) | 103.7 | 32.7 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 21.3 | 6.9 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 7.6 | 22.2 | - | - | 37.6 | |
| as percentage of total | 100.0 | 31.6 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 20.6 | 6.7 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 7.3 | 21.5 | - | - | 36.3 | |
| Income | -0.4 | 1.4 | 0.6 | -1.1 | -1.4 | 3.4 | -0.2 | 0.3 | -3.7 | -3.8 | 0.1 | - | - | 5.2 | |
| credit | 100.7 | 37.8 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 26.4 | 5.6 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 5.1 | 23.2 | - | - | 31.1 | |
| debit | 101.1 | 36.3 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 27.8 | 2.1 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 5.8 | 8.9 | 23.2 | - | - | 25.8 | |
| of which: investment income | -1.4 | 2.0 | 0.6 | -1.1 | -1.5 | 4.9 | -1.0 | 0.3 | -3.7 | -5.3 | -0.0 | - | - | 5.3 | |
| credit | 96.7 | 36.4 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 26.0 | 5.5 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 3.5 | 22.9 | - | - | 30.4 | |
| debit | 98.1 | 34.5 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 27.5 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 5.8 | 8.8 | 23.0 | - | - | 25.0 | |
| Current transfers | -22.8 | -14.7 | -0.0 | -0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | -15.2 | -0.3 | -0.1 | 0.1 | -0.1 | - | - | -7.9 | |
| credit | 15.4 | 10.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 6.7 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 1.4 | - | - | 2.4 | |
| debit | 38.2 | 24.8 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 21.9 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 1.5 | - | - | 10.3 | |
| Capital account | 1.9 | 2.3 | -0.0 | -0.0 | -0.4 | -0.1 | 2.8 | -0.0 | -0.0 | 0.0 | -0.0 | - | - | -0.4 | |
| credit | 4.4 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | - | - | 1.2 | |
| debit | 2.5 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | - | - | 1.5 | |
| Financial account balance1) | 52.1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Direct investment | -41.3 | -21.2 | -2.1 | 2.1 | -20.4 | -0.9 | 0.0 | 0.3 | -0.2 | -5.7 | -5.3 | -3.7 | 0.0 | -5.6 | |
| Abroad | -69.0 | -27.0 | 0.2 | -1.4 | -23.9 | -1.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -2.0 | -3.9 | -12.7 | -17.4 | -0.0 | -6.1 | |
| Equity/reinvested earnings | -60.3 | -24.5 | -0.0 | -0.9 | -20.5 | -3.0 | 0.0 | -0.5 | -1.1 | -1.4 | -10.3 | -15.9 | 0.0 | -6.7 | |
| Other capital | -8.7 | -2.5 | 0.2 | -0.4 | -3.5 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | -0.9 | -2.5 | -2.4 | -1.5 | -0.0 | 0.6 | |
| In the euro area | 27.7 | 5.7 | -2.2 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.8 | -1.8 | 7.5 | 13.7 | 0.0 | 0.5 | |
| Equity/reinvested earnings | 25.3 | 5.4 | -2.3 | 3.3 | 4.8 | -0.4 | 0.0 | -0.1 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 5.6 | 12.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
| Other capital | 2.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.1 | -1.2 | 1.3 | -0.0 | 0.4 | 0.8 | -2.3 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 0.0 | -0.1 | |
| Portfolio investment | 28.4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Assets | -121.8 | -44.4 | -3.5 | -0.1 | -40.4 | -0.1 | -0.3 | -0.7 | 2.6 | -8.3 | -54.7 | -21.3 | 1.4 | 3.5 | |
| Equity | -31.0 | -5.6 | -0.4 | 0.0 | -5.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.4 | -4.5 | -7.9 | -15.7 | -9.7 | -0.0 | 12.0 | |
| Debt | -90.8 | -38.8 | -3.1 | -0.1 | -35.1 | -0.2 | -0.3 | -1.1 | 7.1 | -0.4 | -39.0 | -11.6 | 1.5 | -8.6 | |
| Bonds and notes | -67.8 | -22.6 | -2.9 | -0.5 | -18.4 | -0.5 | -0.3 | -1.2 | -2.5 | 0.8 | -28.5 | -7.3 | -0.3 | -6.4 | |
| Money market instruments | -23.0 | -16.2 | -0.1 | 0.4 | -16.7 | 0.4 | -0.0 | 0.1 | 9.6 | -1.2 | -10.4 | -4.3 | 1.7 | -2.2 | |
| Liabilities | 150.2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Equity | 67.8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Debt | 82.4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Bonds and notes | 75.9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Money market instruments | 6.5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Financial derivatives | 7.7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Other investment | 60.6 | 38.7 | -3.1 | -2.1 | 33.3 | 2.4 | 8.2 | 0.6 | 7.2 | 4.7 | -20.9 | 12.8 | 6.2 | 11.4 | |
| Assets | -154.1 | -101.2 | -4.2 | -2.2 | -91.8 | -3.5 | 0.5 | -0.3 | 0.3 | -8.5 | -20.9 | -16.5 | 0.9 | -7.9 | |
| General government | 12.4 | 5.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 4.4 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | -0.0 | -0.0 | 0.1 | -0.3 | 7.1 | |
| MFIs | -119.2 | -73.3 | -4.6 | -2.1 | -63.1 | -3.6 | 0.0 | -0.5 | 0.7 | -7.9 | -17.1 | -6.6 | 1.1 | -15.5 | |
| Other sectors | -47.3 | -33.4 | 0.1 | -0.2 | -33.2 | 0.0 | -0.1 | 0.1 | -0.3 | -0.6 | -3.8 | -9.9 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
| Liabilities | 214.7 | 139.9 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 125.1 | 6.0 | 7.7 | 0.9 | 6.8 | 13.2 | -0.0 | 29.3 | 5.3 | 19.3 | |
| General government | 6.5 | 3.9 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.4 | -0.0 | 2.5 | 0.0 | -0.1 | 2.2 | -0.1 | 0.0 | 1.0 | -0.5 | |
| MFIs | 165.6 | 93.7 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 82.1 | 5.7 | 4.4 | 0.1 | 6.2 | 12.0 | -4.2 | 31.6 | 4.3 | 21.7 | |
| Other sectors | 42.6 | 42.3 | -0.2 | -0.1 | 41.6 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | -1.0 | 4.3 | -2.3 | -0.0 | -2.0 | |
| Reserve assets | -3.2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Errors and omissions | -49.5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |