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Indicators/Topics/Trade & External Sector/Goods trade balance/United States

United States

Goods trade balance

Goods exports minus goods imports.

FRED

Source: FRED · BOPGTB · monthly · level

Stored official data
Observation load pendingThis series has a mapped provider path, but Macro by Mark has not verified chartable observations for this country, frequency, and unit yet.
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Research notes

Not yet assessed
Fallback data
ComparabilityAggregator is not the statistical authority: Use the source agency, source code, and methodology link when citing or reconciling with official releases.Seasonal-adjustment status needs attention: Prefer same-adjustment comparisons, or transform to year-over-year changes before cross-series comparison.Concept mapping is not explicit: Treat cross-country or cross-provider comparisons as provisional until concept, unit, adjustment, and geography are explicitly aligned.
3 notes
QualitySource authority: 82/100. Aggregator source: useful access layer, but official methodology remains with the originating agency.Metadata completeness: 100/100. 100% of core provider, geography, unit, frequency, citation, methodology, and revision metadata fields are populated.Timeliness and freshness: 38/100. 0 observations available; release status none; data status fallbackRevision and vintage depth: 100/100. Point-in-time data via the FRED ALFRED endpoint. Each request returns the values as they were published on the supplied vintage date.
2/6 strong
CitationGoods trade balance - United States (FRED (St. Louis Fed): BOPGTB, United States, retrieved Aug 5, 2026)
Retrieved Aug 5, 2026

Source evidence

Tier 1 - criticalU.S. macro backbone via St. Louis Fed; revision/vintage capable.Action: deepen nowExpected coverage: 800,000 series.
Source noteProvider health
Source
FRED
Native keyProvider-native identifier used to reconcile this country/provider series.
BOPGTB
FreshnessDisplayed as stored official data.Official values served from the platform's stored snapshot while live refresh is unavailable or not included for this access level.Fetched: Not recorded.Latest observation flag: Preliminary.
Stored official data
HistoryPoint-in-time data via the FRED ALFRED endpoint. Each request returns the values as they were published on the supplied vintage date.Vintage history is derived from FRED ALFRED's realtime_start/realtime_end query parameters.
Source-native vintage
ReuseCommercial use: dataset specific.Redistribution: review required.Do not treat FRED as an automatically reusable commercial-display source. Prefer direct BEA, BLS, Census, FRB, Treasury, and EIA feeds where possible.Source: FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (BOPGTB). Accessed 2026-08-05. Underlying-source rights may differ.
Dataset exceptions
Series details, provenance, and revision toolsMetadata, release notes, revision history, and related series.

Series details

SourceFRED
CategoryTrade
FrequencyMonthly
Unitcurrency
Transformslevel, mom, yoy, index 100
About this series

Goods exports minus goods imports.

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Related measures

Adjacent and similar concepts available for United States.

Current account balanceExports of goods and servicesImports of goods and servicesForeign direct investment inflows
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