[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 45 (Monday, March 9, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 12447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-05423]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Economic Analysis

[Docket No. 150128090-5090-01]
 RIN 0691-XC038


BE-185: Quarterly Survey of Financial Services Transactions 
Between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Foreign Persons

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 Financial Services 
Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Foreign 
Persons (BE-185). This survey is authorized by the International 
Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act and by Section 5408 of the 
Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988.

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 the 
U.S. person's fiscal quarter, except for the final quarter of the U.S. 
person's fiscal year when reports must be filed within 90 days. 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 rulemaking. Additional information about BEA's 
collection of data on international trade in services and direct 
investment can be found in the 2012 rule, the International Investment 
and Trade in Services Survey Act (22 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.), and 15 CFR 
part 801. Survey data on international trade in services and direct 
investment that are not collected pursuant to the 2012 rule are 
described separately in 15 CFR part 801. The BE-185 survey forms and 
instructions are available on the BEA Web site at www.bea.gov/ssb.

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.
    (c) 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.
    (d) Foreign person means any person resident outside the United 
States or subject to the jurisdiction of a country other than the 
United States.

Reporting

    Who Must Report: (a) Reports are required from each U.S. person who 
had sales of covered financial services to foreign persons that 
exceeded $20 million for the previous fiscal year, or are expected to 
exceed that amount during the current fiscal year; or had purchases of 
covered financial services from foreign persons that exceeded $15 
million for the previous fiscal year, or are expected to exceed that 
amount during the current fiscal year. Because the thresholds are 
applied separately to sales and purchases, the reporting requirements 
may apply only to sales, only to purchases, or to both sales and 
purchases.
    (b) Entities required to report will be contacted individually by 
BEA. Entities not contacted by BEA have no reporting responsibilities.
    What to Report: The survey collects information on transactions in 
the covered financial services between U.S. financial services 
providers and foreign persons.
    How to Report: Reports can be filed using BEA's electronic 
reporting system at www.bea.gov/efile. Copies of the survey forms and 
instructions, which contain complete information on reporting 
procedures and definitions, may be obtained at the BEA Web site given 
above. Form BE-185 inquiries can be made by phone to BEA at (202) 606-
5588 or by sending an email to [email protected].
    When To Report: Reports are due to BEA 45 days after the end of the 
fiscal quarter, except for the final quarter of the reporter's fiscal 
year when reports must be filed within 90 days.

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 0608-0065. 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. 
Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated 
to average 10 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 0608-0065, 
Washington, DC 20503.

    Authority: 22 U.S.C. 3101-3108 and 15 U.S.C. 4908(b).

    Dated: February 2, 2015.
Brian C. Moyer,
Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
[FR Doc. 2015-05423 Filed 3-6-15; 8:45 am]
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