{"id":433297,"date":"2026-07-07T19:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-international-trade-balance-77-6b-vs-78-5b-estimate-433297\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T12:30:16","slug":"us-international-trade-balance-77-6b-vs-78-5b-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-international-trade-balance-77-6b-vs-78-5b-estimate-433297\/","title":{"rendered":"US International Trade balance -$77.6B vs -$78.5B estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior month -$55.9B revised to $-54.6 billion<\/li>\n<li>Trade balance -$77.6BB vs $-78.5B est.<\/li>\n<li>Good trade balance $-105.89B vs -$105.8B preliminary and prior month -$83.01B last month.<\/li>\n<li>Exports were $317.7 billion, $10.5 billion less than April exports. .<\/li>\n<li>Imports were $395.3 billion, $12.5 billion more than April imports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The May increase in the goods and services deficit reflected an increase in the goods deficit of $23.6 billion to $106.5 billion and an increase in the services surplus of $0.6 billion to $28.9 billion.<\/li>\n<li>Year-to-date, the goods and services deficit decreased $203.9 billion, or 40.6 percent, from the same period in 2025. Exports increased $164.7 billion or 11.7 percent. Imports decreased $39.2 billion or 2.1 percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Details of imports showed:<\/p>\n<p>Imports of goods increased $12.3 billion to $317.0 billion in May.<\/p>\n<p>  Imports of goods on a Census basis increased $12.1 billion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"edc9d36577ef9e2b53e72d563e88db563\">Consumer goods increased $3.5 billion.\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e8d1d401777aaa17d25497def62fcd93c\">Pharmaceutical preparations increased $1.9 billion.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ec02ad663346c6dc4369802d3569d28c3\">Cell phones and other household goods increased $1.0 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e5318229476e914dd8b44795132394da8\">Industrial supplies and materials increased $3.1 billion.\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ede6172ea276c5b24372c5d193de17250\">Crude oil increased $1.5 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e31f2754ce58f1c3369ff6da70e2e1702\">Automotive vehicles, parts, and engines increased $2.2 billion.\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"efc1c898f2f24eda10eb8b427922c8d32\">Passenger cars increased $1.0 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e73d3fc6876392a97f8dd60398e7ba994\">Other goods increased $1.4 billion.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e91089744180a2f70aa1da574fd1c1732\">Capital goods increased $1.1 billion.\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e5fa1b8f8caa46e032c97accdd63e15f6\">Computer accessories increased $1.2 billion.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ee9dcea7c72ac1f6778a1b890f695db0d\">Semiconductors increased $1.0 billion.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e8c79adcbe95bae4dd8b582c806ef8022\">Computers decreased $3.4 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Details of Exports showed:<\/p>\n<p>Exports of goods decreased $11.3 billion to $210.6 billion in May.<\/p>\n<p>  Exports of goods on a Census basis decreased $11.6 billion.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ead73f349d8fa41aa027c60ecc8e1e4f9\">Industrial supplies and materials decreased $5.5 billion.\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e625a1d36995a84935acbd97d3f0fbb5c\">Nonmonetary gold decreased $6.2 billion.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e74b117b47ceef3d5d7a38f451b067771\">Other precious metals decreased $1.3 billion.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"eb0067190ebc393728db1fabcf7aefc4d\">Natural gas decreased $1.1 billion.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e45d55e3da917ffcd42088489816c9736\">Crude oil increased $2.0 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ee10ecd99d116f8e565d0ec8e116488cf\">Capital goods decreased $3.5 billion.\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e6c966bc6232bbfbcc9c7db61d7e1ce5b\">Computers decreased $2.1 billion.<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e1b9761d6839201ef4bb10aa8eadea212\">Computer accessories decreased $2.0 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e0fc47cabbd2e8082615279925c0ba441\">Consumer goods decreased $2.1 billion.\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e63171a2a33747f8f68be4c0dfcacaa58\">Pharmaceutical preparations decreased $0.9 billion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior month -$55.9B revised to $-54.6 billion Trade balance -$77.6BB vs $-78.5B est. Good trade balance $-105.89B vs -$105.8B preliminary and prior month -$83.01B last month. Exports were $317.7 billion, $10.5 billion&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}