U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Updates Direct Investment Abroad Survey Regulations

Summary

The Bureau of Economic Analysis has amended its regulations to simplify the 2009 Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad, a comprehensive survey of U.S. foreign investments, by changing survey form design and reporting criteria to improve response rates and removing items already collected on other surveys.

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