So first of all, you're getting back what's effectively voluntary data from firms, and half of it's made up because when you look at it, it's an UNINTELLIGIBLE form and you don't know how much to account for US or overseas or anything, so The services numbers... are quite unreliable. Case in point, if you go to the UK and you say, what's your services balance with the United States? They'll say, oh, well, in the uk, we're proud to have a services surplus with the United States. (59:42–1:00:43)
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Asserts that U.S. services trade data is unreliable.
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