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

Résumé

This document sets forth proposed rules to revise regulations to present the reporting requirements for the BE-82, Annual Survey of Financial Services Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services Providers an Unaffiliated Foreign Persons. The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 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 hereinafter "the Act," and under Section 5408 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988. The first annual survey conducted under these proposed rules will cover transactions in fiscal year 2000. BEA will send the survey to potential respondents in January of the year 2001; responses will be due by March 31