United States Foreign Trade Highlights, 2005 brings together a wide variety of government data to assist users in assessing trends in U.S. international trade. This volume includes the following: *U.S. international transactions data, which provide key statistics on the current account and net international debt status that are the broadest measures of foreign trade and capital flows; *U.S. foreign trade data for exports and imports of goods and services that provide a wealth of information on trends in the external sector *Summary sections highlighting what the data show with concise text and graphic materials which give users an overview of the salient features of the statistics; and *A full explanatory discussion of data sources and uses to assist the user in understanding the multiple foreign trade statistics that appear in the press as well as in academic discussions of trade issues.