[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 187 (Friday, September 26, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 55741]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-24325]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY


Office of International Affairs; Survey of U.S. Ownership of 
Foreign Securities as of December 31, 2003

AGENCY: Departmental Offices, Department of the Treasury.

ACTION: Notice of reporting requirements.

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SUMMARY: By this Notice, the Department of the Treasury is informing 
the public that it is conducting a mandatory survey of U.S. ownership 
of foreign securities as of December 31, 2003. This Notice constitutes 
legal notification to all United States persons who are in the 
reporting panel set forth in this Notice that they must respond to this 
survey. Additional copies of the reporting form SHCA and instructions 
may be printed from the Internet at: http://www.treas.gov/tic/forms.html.
    Who Must Report: It is expected that reporting will be required 
only from those organizations which reported the largest values of 
securities data on the benchmark survey Form SHC entitled ``U.S. 
Ownership of Foreign Securities, Including Selected Money Market 
Instruments as of December 31, 2001''. The panel for this survey is 
expected to include: The 36 largest custodians and largest end-
investors that filed schedule 2 in the aforementioned 2001 benchmark 
survey; and 194 of the next largest end-investors that filed schedule 3 
in the aforementioned 2001 benchmark survey. Entities required to 
report will be contacted individually by the Federal Reserve Bank of 
New York. Entities not contacted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New 
York have no reporting responsibilities.
    What To Report: This report will collect information on U.S. 
resident holdings of foreign securities, i.e. equities, long-term debt 
securities, and short-term debt securities (including selected money 
market instruments).
    How To Report: Copies of the survey forms and instructions, which 
contain complete information on reporting procedures and definitions, 
can be obtained by contacting the survey staff of the Federal Reserve 
Bank of New York at (212) 720-6300, e-mail: [email protected]. The 
mailing address is: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Statistics 
Function, 4th Floor, 33 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10045-0001.
    When To Report: Data must be submitted to the Federal Reserve Bank 
of New York, acting as fiscal agent for the Department of the Treasury, 
by March 5, 2004.

Dwight Wolkow,
Administrator, International Portfolio Investment Data Reporting 
Systems.
[FR Doc. 03-24325 Filed 9-25-03; 8:45 am]
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