International Services Surveys: BE-22, Annual Survey of Selected Services Transactions with Unaffiliated Foreign Persons

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This final rule revises regulations for the BE-22, Annual Survey of Selected Services Transactions with Unaffiliated Foreign Persons. The BE-22 survey is conducted by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), U.S. Department of Commerce, under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act, in years the BE-20, Benchmark Survey of Selected Services Transactions with Unaffiliated Foreign Persons is not conducted. This rule revises the regulations to create a new reporting requirement for medical services, receipts only. Additionally, BEA announces that it is revising the BE-22 to create new reporting categories for trade-related services, auxiliary insurance services, and waste treatment and depollution services; add coverage of transcription services; and amend several other service categories.