[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 40 (Friday, February 28, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11396-11397]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-04464]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Economic Analysis

[Docket No. 140110026-4026-01]


BE-9: Quarterly Survey of Foreign Airline Operators' Revenues and 
Expenses in the United States

AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Reporting Requirements.

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SUMMARY: By this Notice, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), 
Department of Commerce is informing the public that it is conducting 
the mandatory survey titled Quarterly Survey of Foreign Airline 
Operators' Revenues and Expenses in the United States (BE-9). This 
survey is authorized by the International Investment and Trade in 
Services Survey Act.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Notice constitutes legal notification 
to all United States persons (defined below) who meet the reporting 
requirements set forth in this Notice that they must respond to, and 
comply with, the survey. Reports are due 45 days after the end of each 
calendar quarter. This notice is being issued in conformance with the 
rule BEA issued in 2012 (77 FR 24373) establishing guidelines for 
collecting data on international trade in services and direct 
investment through notices, rather than through rulemakings. The BE-9 
survey forms and instructions are available on the BEA Web site at 
www.bea.gov/surveys/iussurv.htm.

Definitions

    (a) Person means any individual, branch, partnership, associated 
group, association, estate, trust, corporation, or other organization 
(whether or not organized under the laws of any State), and any 
government (including a foreign government, the United States 
Government, a State or local government, and any agency, corporation, 
financial institution, or other entity or instrumentality thereof, 
including a government-sponsored agency).
    (b) United States person means any person resident in the United 
States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. United 
States, when used in a geographic sense, means the 50 States, the 
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and all 
territories and possessions of the United States.
    (c) Foreign person means any person resident outside the United 
States or subject to the jurisdiction of a country other than the 
United States.
    Who Must Report: Reports are required from U.S. offices, agents, or 
other representatives of foreign airline operators that transport 
passengers or freight and express to or from the United States and 
whose total covered revenues or total covered expenses: (a) were 
$5,000,000 or more during the previous year or are (b) expected to be 
$5,000,000 or more during the current year. Because the thresholds are 
applied separately to sales and purchases, the reporting requirements 
may apply only

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to sales, only to purchases, or to both sales and purchases. Entities 
required to report will be contacted individually by BEA. Entities not 
contacted by BEA have no reporting responsibilities.
    What To Report: The survey is intended to collect information on 
foreign airline operators' revenues and expenses in the United States. 
The survey is intended to collect information on transactions occurring 
in the covered services in the last quarter of calendar year 2013 and 
in the first three quarters of calendar year 2014.
    How To Report: Reports can be filed via BEA's electronic reporting 
system at www.bea.gov/efile. Additionally, copies of the survey forms 
and instructions, which contain complete information on reporting 
procedures and definitions, can be obtained from the BEA Web site at 
www.bea.gov/surveys/iussurv.htm. Inquiries can be made to BEA at (202) 
606-5588.
    When To Report: Reports are due to BEA 45 days after the end of 
each calendar quarter.
    Paperwork Reduction Act Notice: This data collection has been 
approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in accordance 
with the Paperwork Reduction Act and assigned control number 0608-0068. 
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to 
respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid 
control number assigned by OMB. The estimated average annual public 
reporting burden for this collection of information is 6 hours per 
response. Send comments regarding this burden estimate to Director, 
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BE-1), U.S. Department of Commerce, 
Washington, DC 20230; and to the Office of Management and Budget, 
Paperwork Reduction Project 0608-0068, Washington, DC 20503.

    Authority:  22 U.S.C. 3101-3108, as amended.

J. Steven Landefeld,
Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
[FR Doc. 2014-04464 Filed 2-27-14; 8:45 am]
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