An official website of the United States government bea Bureau of Economic Analysis U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE September 18,2020 U.S. International Transactions, Second Quarter 2020 The U.S: current account deficit widened by $59.0 billion, or 52.9 percent; to $170.5 billion in the second quarter of 2020,according to statistics from the U.S.Bureau of Economic Analysis The revised first quarter deficit was $111.5 billion: The second quarter deficit was 3.5 percent of current dollar gross domestic product, up from 2.1percent in the first quarter: Current Release Principal Federal Lcnac Idia+XC