International Services Surveys: BE-82, Annual Survey of Financial Services Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Unaffiliated Foreign Persons

Résumé

These final rules revise regulations for the BE-82, Annual Survey of Financial Services Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Unaffiliated Foreign Persons. The BE-82 survey is mandatory and is conducted annually, in which years the BE-80, Benchmark Survey of Financial Services Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Unaffiliated Foreign Persons is not conducted, by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), U.S. Department of Commerce, under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act, and under the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988. The annual survey will obtain data used to update the universe data, collected the BE-80 benchmark survey, on trade in financial services, by type and by country, between U.S. financial services providers and unaffiliated foreign persons. Data from the BE-82 survey (and the benchmark survey, the BE-80) are needed to monitor trade in financial services, analyze its impact on the U.S. and foreign economies, compile and improve the U.S. economic accounts, support U.S. commercial policy on financial services, conduct trade promotion, improve the ability of U.S. businesses to identify and eva