Notice


The Bureau of the Census and the Bureau of Economic Analysis issued today 
the U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, 1993 Annual Revision:


Goods

     The 1993 unadjusted Census Basis goods data were revised to eliminate 
"carry-over" (that portion of the monthly statistics that arrives too late 
for inclusion in the transaction month) and to include errata (corrections 
to the published monthly data).  Once these corrections were completed, 
factors for seasonal and working-day adjustments were recomputed, and the
seasonally adjusted data were revised.  Beginning with this issue of the 
FT-900, data for 1992 and 1993 include these changes.  The new seasonal 
factors were also used to revise data for the first three months of 1994.


Services

     The services estimates were revised to incorporate updated source 
data for 1992-93 and the first quarter of 1994.  Revisions to most series 
were, for the most part, offsetting.  Other private service receipts and 
other private service payments were both revised downward, based upon new 
annual survey data.  New seasonal factors were applied to unadjusted data 
for 1992 and 1993, as well as for the first three months of 1994.


SOURCE: Report FT900 (CB-94-97), Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade
        Division, APRIL 1994. For more information, contact Haydn R. 
        Mearkle (301-763-5333) or Richard M. Preuss (301-763-7754), 
        Foreign Trade Division.