Direct Investment Surveys: BE-10, Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad1999

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This document sets forth proposed rules to revise regulations, to present the reporting requirements for the BE-10, Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad. 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-10 survey is a mandatory survey and is conducted once every 5 years by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), US Department of Commerce, under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act. The proposed benchmark survey will be conducted for 1999. BEA will send the survey to potential respondents in March of the year 2000; responses will be due by May 31, 2000 for respondents required to file fewer than 50 forms and by June 30, 2000 for those required to file 50 or more forms. The last benchmark survey was conducted for 1994. The benchmark survey covers virtually the entire universe of US direct investment abroad in terms of value, and is BEA's most comprehensive survey of such investment in terms of subject matter. Changes