Also known as Factor Payments. These are payments to primary factors of production (e.g., wages to employees and rents to landowners). There two main categories are: employee compensation and proprietor income.

A component of final uses that measures goods and services that are produced in the United States and sold to the foreign sector. They are valued at f.a.s. (free alongside ship), which is equivalent to purchasers’ value at the U.S. port of export. The definition of exports in the U.S. international transactions accounts differs slightly from that in the NIPAs and I-O accounts, primarily in the treatment of trade in non-monetary gold and of trade involving U.S. territories. (BEA) Exports of goods and services consist of sales, barter, or gifts or grants, of goods and services from residents to non-residents. (SNA)

Excise duties consist of special taxes levied on specific kinds of goods, typically alcoholic beverages, tobacco and fuels; they may be imposed at any stage of production or distribution and are usually assessed by reference to the weight or strength or quantity of the product. (SNA)

A subset of an Activity, an Event shows the change in production of an industry or commodity, as a dollar value change in final demand.