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International Services Surveys: BE–
185, Quarterly Survey of Financial
Services Transactions Between U.S.
Financial Services Providers and
Foreign Persons
Bureau of Economic Analysis,
Commerce.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
Final rule.
SUMMARY: This final rule amends
regulations of the Bureau of Economic
Analysis, Department of Commerce
(BEA) to set forth the reporting
requirements for the BE–185, Quarterly
Survey of Financial Services
Transactions Between U.S. Financial
Services Providers and Foreign Persons.
This survey replaces a similar but more
limited survey, the BE–85, Quarterly
Survey of Financial Services
Transactions Between U.S. Financial
Services Providers and Unaffiliated
Foreign Persons. A new agency form
number and survey title are being
introduced because the survey program
is being reconfigured to begin collection
of data on transactions with affiliated
foreigners using the same survey
instruments as are used to collect
information on transactions with
unaffiliated foreigners. This change will
allow respondents to report financial
services transactions with foreign
persons on one quarterly survey, rather
than on as many as three different
quarterly surveys. The BE–185 survey
will be conducted quarterly beginning
with the first quarter of 2007.
The BE–185 survey data will be used
to update universe estimates from
similar data reported on the BE–80,
Benchmark Survey of Financial Services
Transactions Between U.S. Financial
Services Providers and Unaffiliated
Foreign Persons and on the benchmark
and quarterly direct investment surveys
that were administered to collect data
on transactions with affiliated foreign
persons.
DATES: This final rule will be effective
March 7, 2007
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Obie
G. Whichard, Chief, International
Investment Division (BE–50), Bureau of
Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of
Commerce, Washington, DC 20230; email obie.whichard@bea.gov; or phone
(202) 606–9890.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the
November 16, 2006 Federal Register, 71
FR 66706, BEA published a notice of
proposed rulemaking setting forth
reporting requirements for the BE–185,
Quarterly Survey of Financial Services
Transactions Between U.S. Financial
Services Providers and Foreign Persons.
No comments were received on the
proposed rule. Thus, the proposed rule
is adopted without change. This final
rule amends 15 CFR Part 801.9 to
replace the reporting requirements for
the BE–85, Quarterly Survey of
Financial Services Transactions
Between U.S. Financial Services
Providers and Unaffiliated Foreign
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Persons, with requirements for the BE–
185, Quarterly Survey of Financial
Services Transactions Between U.S.
Financial Services Providers and
Foreign Persons.
Description of Changes
The BE–185 survey is a mandatory
survey and will be conducted,
beginning with transactions for the first
quarter of 2007, by BEA under the
International Investment and Trade in
Services Survey Act (22 U.S.C. 3101—
3108). For the initial quarter of
coverage, BEA will send the survey to
potential respondents in March of 2007;
responses will be due by May 15, 2007.
The BE–185 will collect all the same
information as the BE–85 but will also
include financial services transactions
with affiliated parties (i.e., with foreign
affiliates, foreign parents, and foreign
affiliates of foreign parents). BEA is
currently collecting these transactions
on its quarterly direct investment
surveys (the BE–577, Direct
Transactions of U.S. Reporter with
Foreign Affiliate, the BE–605,
Transactions of U.S. Affiliate, except a
U.S. Banking Affiliate, with Foreign
Parent, and the BE–605 Bank,
Transactions of U.S. Banking Affiliate
with Foreign Parent). These transactions
with affiliated parties that are collected
on BEA(s quarterly direct investment
surveys will now be collected on the
BE–185 instead. In addition, the BE–185
will bifurcate the category for brokerage
services into two categories, by
collecting information on services
related to equities transactions
separately from other brokerage
services.
Survey Background
The Bureau of Economic Analysis
(BEA), U.S. Department of Commerce,
will conduct the BE–185 survey under
the International Investment and Trade
in Services Survey Act (22 U.S.C. 3101–
3108), hereinafter, ‘‘the Act’’ and
Section 5408 of the Omnibus Trade and
Competitiveness Act of 1988 (Pub. L.
100–418, 15 U.S.C. 4908(b)). Section
4(a) of the Act (22 U.S.C. 3103(a))
provides that the President shall, to the
extent he deems necessary and feasible,
conduct a regular data collection
program to secure current information
related to international investment and
trade in services and publish for the use
of the general public and United States
Government agencies periodic, regular,
and comprehensive statistical
information collected pursuant to this
subsection.
In Section 3 of Executive Order
11961, as amended by Executive Orders
12318 and 12518, the President
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delegated the responsibilities under the
Act for performing functions concerning
international trade in services to the
Secretary of Commerce, who has
redelegated them to BEA. The survey
will provide a basis for updating
estimates of the universe of financial
services transactions between U.S. and
foreign persons. The data are needed to
monitor trade in financial services;
analyze its impact on the U.S. and
foreign economies; compile and
improve the U.S. international
transactions, national income and
product, and input-output accounts;
support U.S. commercial policy on
financial services; assess and promote
U.S. competitiveness in international
trade in services; and improve the
ability of U.S. businesses to identify and
evaluate market opportunities.
Executive Order 12866
This final rule has been determined to
be not significant for purposes of E.O.
12866.
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Executive Order 13132
This final rule does not contain
policies with Federalism implications
sufficient to warrant preparation of a
Federal assessment under E.O. 13132.
Paperwork Reduction Act
The collection-of-information in this
final rule has been approved by the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction
Act.
Notwithstanding any other provisions
of the law, no person is required to
respond to, nor shall any person be
subject to a penalty for failure to comply
with, a collection of information subject
to the requirements of the Paperwork
Reduction Act unless that collection
displays a currently valid Office of
Management and Budget Control
Number. The OMB control number for
the BE–185 is 0608–0065; the collection
will display this number.
The BE–185 quarterly survey is
expected to result in the filing of reports
containing mandatory data from
approximately 175 respondents on a
quarterly basis, or 700 annually. The
respondent burden for this collection of
information will vary from one
respondent to another, but is estimated
to average 10 hours per response (40
hours annually), including time for
reviewing instructions, searching
existing data sources, gathering and
maintaining the data needed, and
completing and reviewing the collection
of information. Thus, the total
respondent burden for the BE–185
survey is estimated at 7,000 hours,
compared to 5,000 hours estimated for
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the previous BE–85 survey. The increase
in burden is a result of the inclusion of
transactions with affiliated foreign
persons.
Comments regarding this burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information should be
addressed to: Director, Bureau of
Economic Analysis (BE–1), U.S.
Department of Commerce, Washington,
DC 20230, fax: 202–606–5311; and the
Office of Management and Budget,
O.I.R.A., Paperwork Reduction Project
0608–0065, Attention PRA Desk Officer
for BEA, via e-mail at
pbugg@omb.eop.gov or by fax at 202–
395–7245.
Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Chief Counsel for Regulation,
Department of Commerce, has certified
to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy,
Small Business Administration, under
provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility
Act (5 U.S.C. 605(b)), that this rule will
not have a significant economic impact
on a substantial number of small
entities. The factual basis for this
certification was published with the
proposed rule. No comments were
received regarding the economic impact
of this rule. As a result, no final
regulatory flexibility analysis was
prepared.
List of Subjects in 15 CFR Part 801
International transactions, Economic
statistics, Financial services, Foreign
trade, Penalties, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements.
Dated: January 30, 2007.
J. Steven Landefeld,
Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
For the reasons set forth in the
preamble, BEA amends 15 CFR Part 801,
as follows:
I
PART 801—SURVEY OF
INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SERVICES
BETWEEN U.S. AND FOREIGN
PERSONS
1. The authority citation for 15 CFR
Part 801 continues to read as follows:
I
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 15 U.S.C. 4908; 22
U.S.C. 3101–3108; and E.O. 11961, 3 CFR,
1977 Comp., p. 86, as amended by E.O.
12318, 3 CFR, 1981 Comp., p. 173, and E.O.
12518, 3 CFR, 1985 Comp., p. 348.
2. Revise § 801.9(c)(4). to read as
follows:
I
§ 801.9
Reports required.
(c) Quarterly surveys. * * *
(4) BE–185, Quarterly Survey of
Financial Services Transactions
Between U.S. Financial Services
Providers and Foreign Persons:
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(i) A BE–185, Quarterly Survey of
Financial Services Transactions
Between U.S. Financial Services
Providers and Foreign Persons, will be
conducted covering the first quarter of
the 2007 calendar year and every
quarter thereafter.
(A) Who must report—(1) Mandatory
reporting. Reports are required from
each U.S. person who is a financial
services provider or intermediary, or
whose consolidated U.S. enterprise
includes a separately organized
subsidiary or part that is a financial
services provider or intermediary, and
that had sales of covered services to
foreign persons that exceeded $20
million for the previous fiscal year or
expects sales to exceed that amount
during the current fiscal year, or had
purchases of covered services from
foreign persons that exceeded $15
million for the previous fiscal year or
expects purchases to exceed that
amount during the current fiscal year.
These thresholds should be applied to
financial services transactions with
foreign persons by all parts of the
consolidated U.S. enterprise combined
that are financial services providers or
intermediaries. Because the thresholds
are applied separately to sales and
purchases, the mandatory reporting
requirement may apply only to sales,
only to purchases, or to both sales and
purchases. Quarterly reports for a year
may be required retroactively when it is
determined that the exemption level has
been exceeded.
(i) The determination of whether a
U.S. financial services provider or
intermediary is subject to this
mandatory reporting requirement may
be based on the judgment of
knowledgeable persons in a company
who can identify reportable transactions
on a recall basis, with a reasonable
degree of certainty, without conducting
a detailed records search.
(ii) Reporters who file pursuant to this
mandatory reporting requirement must
provide data on total sales and/or
purchases of each of the covered types
of financial services transactions and
must disaggregate the totals by country.
(2) Voluntary reporting. If a financial
services provider or intermediary, or all
of a firm’s subsidiaries or parts
combined that are financial services
providers or intermediaries, had
covered sales of $20 million or less, or
covered purchases of $15 million or less
during the previous fiscal year, and if
covered sales or purchases are not to
expected to exceed these amounts in the
current fiscal year, a person is requested
to provide an estimate of the total for
each type of service for the most recent
quarter. Provision of this information is
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voluntary. The estimates may be based
on the reasoned judgment of the
reporting entity. Because these
thresholds apply separately to sales and
purchases, voluntary reporting may
apply only to sales, only to purchases,
or to both.
(B) BE–185 definition of financial
services provider. The definition of
financial services provider used for this
survey is identical in coverage to Sector
52 B Finance and Insurance, and
holding companies that own or
influence, and are principally engaged
in making management decisions for
these firms (part of Sector 55 B
Management of Companies and
Enterprises) of the North American
Industry Classification System, United
States, 2002. For example, companies
and/or subsidiaries and other separable
parts of companies in the following
industries are defined as financial
services providers: Depository credit
intermediation and related activities
(including commercial banking, savings
institutions, credit unions, and other
depository credit intermediation);
nondepository credit intermediation
(including credit card issuing, sales
financing, and other nondepository
credit intermediation); activities related
to credit intermediation (including
mortgage and nonmortgage loan brokers,
financial transactions processing,
reserve, and clearinghouse activities,
and other activities related to credit
intermediation); securities and
commodity contracts intermediation
and brokerage (including investment
banking and securities dealing,
securities brokerage, commodity
contracts dealing, and commodity
contracts brokerage); securities and
commodity exchanges; other financial
investment activities (including
miscellaneous intermediation, portfolio
management, investment advice, and all
other financial investment activities);
insurance carriers; insurance agencies,
brokerages, and other insurance related
activities; insurance and employee
benefit funds (including pension funds,
health and welfare funds, and other
insurance funds); other investment
pools and funds (including open-end
investment funds, trusts, estates, and
agency accounts, real estate investment
trusts, and other financial vehicles); and
holding companies that own, or
influence the management decisions of,
firms principally engaged in the
aforementioned activities.
(C) Covered types of services. The BE–
185 survey covers the following types of
financial services transactions
(purchases and/or sales) between U.S.
financial services providers and foreign
persons: Brokerage services related to
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equities transactions; other brokerage
services; underwriting and private
placement services; financial
management services; credit-related
services, except credit card services;
credit card services; financial advisory
and custody services; securities lending
services; electronic funds transfer
services; and other financial services.
(ii) [Reserved]
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*
*
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[Docket No. 061005256–7017–02]
RIN 0691–AA61
International Services Surveys: BE–
125, Quarterly Survey of Transactions
in Selected Services and Intangible
Assets With Foreign Persons
Bureau of Economic Analysis,
Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This final rule amends
regulations of the Bureau of Economic
Analysis, Department of Commerce
(BEA) to set forth the reporting
requirements for the BE–125, Quarterly
Survey of Transactions in Selected
Services and Intangible Assets with
Foreign Persons. This survey replaces a
similar but more limited survey, the BE–
25, Quarterly Survey of Transactions
with Unaffiliated Foreign Persons in
Selected Services and in Intangible
Assets. A new agency form number and
survey title are being introduced
because the survey program is being
reconfigured to begin collection of data
on transactions with affiliated foreigners
using the same survey instruments as
are used to collect information on
transactions with unaffiliated foreigners
and because services once collected on
an annual basis will now be collected
quarterly. This change will allow
respondents to report transactions in
services and intangible assets with
foreign persons on one quarterly survey,
rather than on as many as three different
quarterly surveys and one annual
survey. The BE–125 survey will be
conducted quarterly beginning with the
first quarter of 2007.
The BE–125 survey data will be used
to update universe estimates from
similar data reported on the BE–120,
Benchmark Survey of Transactions in
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Selected Services and Intangible Assets
with Foreign Persons and on the
benchmark and quarterly direct
investment surveys that were
administered to collect data on
transactions with affiliated foreign
persons.
DATES: This final rule will be effective
March 7, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Obie
G. Whichard, Chief, International
Investment Division (BE–50), Bureau of
Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of
Commerce, Washington, DC 20230; email obie.whichard@bea.gov; or phone
(202) 606–9890.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the
November 20, 2006 Federal Register, 71
FR 67086, BEA published a notice of
proposed rulemaking setting forth
reporting requirements for the BE–125,
Quarterly Survey of Transactions in
Selected Services and Intangible Assets
with Foreign Persons. No comments
were received on the proposed rule.
Thus, the proposed rule is adopted
without change. This final rule amends
15 CFR 801.9 to replace the reporting
requirements for the BE–25, Quarterly
Survey of Transactions with
Unaffiliated Foreign Persons in Selected
Services and in Intangible Assets, with
requirements for the BE–125, Quarterly
Survey of Transactions in Selected
Services and Intangible Assets with
Foreign Persons.
Description of Changes
The BE–125 survey is a mandatory
survey and will be conducted,
beginning with transactions for the first
quarter of 2007, by BEA under the
International Investment and Trade in
Services Survey Act (22 U.S.C. 3101–
3108), hereinafter, ‘‘the Act.’’ For the
initial quarter of coverage, BEA will
send the survey to potential respondents
in March of 2007; responses will be due
by May 15, 2007.
The BE–125 will collect information
now reported on the BE–25, Quarterly
Survey of Transactions Between U.S.
and Unaffiliated Foreign Persons in
Selected Services and in Intangible
Assets, and will also include services
transactions that BEA is currently
collecting on the BE–22, Annual Survey
of Selected Services Transactions
Between U.S. and Unaffiliated Foreign
Persons, and services transactions with
affiliated parties (i.e., with foreign
affiliates, foreign parents, and foreign
affiliates of foreign parents). In addition
to discontinuing the BE–25, BEA also
will discontinue the BE–22 at the time
the BE–125 is implemented. BEA is
currently collecting information on the
transactions with affiliated parties on its
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Economic Analysis
15 CFR Part 801
[Docket No. 061005257-7018-02]
RIN 0691-AA62
International Services Surveys: BE-185, Quarterly Survey of
Financial Services Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services
Providers and Foreign Persons
AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: This final rule amends regulations of the Bureau of Economic
Analysis, Department of Commerce (BEA) to set forth the reporting
requirements for the BE-185, Quarterly Survey of Financial Services
Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Foreign
Persons. This survey replaces a similar but more limited survey, the
BE-85, Quarterly Survey of Financial Services Transactions Between U.S.
Financial Services Providers and Unaffiliated Foreign Persons. A new
agency form number and survey title are being introduced because the
survey program is being reconfigured to begin collection of data on
transactions with affiliated foreigners using the same survey
instruments as are used to collect information on transactions with
unaffiliated foreigners. This change will allow respondents to report
financial services transactions with foreign persons on one quarterly
survey, rather than on as many as three different quarterly surveys.
The BE-185 survey will be conducted quarterly beginning with the first
quarter of 2007.
The BE-185 survey data will be used to update universe estimates
from similar data reported on the BE-80, Benchmark Survey of Financial
Services Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services Providers and
Unaffiliated Foreign Persons and on the benchmark and quarterly direct
investment surveys that were administered to collect data on
transactions with affiliated foreign persons.
DATES: This final rule will be effective March 7, 2007
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Obie G. Whichard, Chief, International
Investment Division (BE-50), Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230; e-mail
obie.whichard@bea.gov; or phone (202) 606-9890.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the November 16, 2006 Federal Register,
71 FR 66706, BEA published a notice of proposed rulemaking setting
forth reporting requirements for the BE-185, Quarterly Survey of
Financial Services Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services
Providers and Foreign Persons. No comments were received on the
proposed rule. Thus, the proposed rule is adopted without change. This
final rule amends 15 CFR Part 801.9 to replace the reporting
requirements for the BE-85, Quarterly Survey of Financial Services
Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Unaffiliated
Foreign Persons, with requirements for the BE-185, Quarterly Survey of
Financial Services Transactions Between U.S. Financial Services
Providers and Foreign Persons.
Description of Changes
The BE-185 survey is a mandatory survey and will be conducted,
beginning with transactions for the first quarter of 2007, by BEA under
the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act (22
U.S.C. 3101--3108). For the initial quarter of coverage, BEA will send
the survey to potential respondents in March of 2007; responses will be
due by May 15, 2007.
The BE-185 will collect all the same information as the BE-85 but
will also include financial services transactions with affiliated
parties (i.e., with foreign affiliates, foreign parents, and foreign
affiliates of foreign parents). BEA is currently collecting these
transactions on its quarterly direct investment surveys (the BE-577,
Direct Transactions of U.S. Reporter with Foreign Affiliate, the BE-
605, Transactions of U.S. Affiliate, except a U.S. Banking Affiliate,
with Foreign Parent, and the BE-605 Bank, Transactions of U.S. Banking
Affiliate with Foreign Parent). These transactions with affiliated
parties that are collected on BEA(s quarterly direct investment surveys
will now be collected on the BE-185 instead. In addition, the BE-185
will bifurcate the category for brokerage services into two categories,
by collecting information on services related to equities transactions
separately from other brokerage services.
Survey Background
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), U.S. Department of Commerce,
will conduct the BE-185 survey under the International Investment and
Trade in Services Survey Act (22 U.S.C. 3101-3108), hereinafter, ``the
Act'' and Section 5408 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of
1988 (Pub. L. 100-418, 15 U.S.C. 4908(b)). Section 4(a) of the Act (22
U.S.C. 3103(a)) provides that the President shall, to the extent he
deems necessary and feasible, conduct a regular data collection program
to secure current information related to international investment and
trade in services and publish for the use of the general public and
United States Government agencies periodic, regular, and comprehensive
statistical information collected pursuant to this subsection.
In Section 3 of Executive Order 11961, as amended by Executive
Orders 12318 and 12518, the President
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delegated the responsibilities under the Act for performing functions
concerning international trade in services to the Secretary of
Commerce, who has redelegated them to BEA. The survey will provide a
basis for updating estimates of the universe of financial services
transactions between U.S. and foreign persons. The data are needed to
monitor trade in financial services; analyze its impact on the U.S. and
foreign economies; compile and improve the U.S. international
transactions, national income and product, and input-output accounts;
support U.S. commercial policy on financial services; assess and
promote U.S. competitiveness in international trade in services; and
improve the ability of U.S. businesses to identify and evaluate market
opportunities.
Executive Order 12866
This final rule has been determined to be not significant for
purposes of E.O. 12866.
Executive Order 13132
This final rule does not contain policies with Federalism
implications sufficient to warrant preparation of a Federal assessment
under E.O. 13132.
Paperwork Reduction Act
The collection-of-information in this final rule has been approved
by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork
Reduction Act.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, no person is
required to respond to, nor shall any person be subject to a penalty
for failure to comply with, a collection of information subject to the
requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act unless that collection
displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget Control
Number. The OMB control number for the BE-185 is 0608-0065; the
collection will display this number.
The BE-185 quarterly survey is expected to result in the filing of
reports containing mandatory data from approximately 175 respondents on
a quarterly basis, or 700 annually. The respondent burden for this
collection of information will vary from one respondent to another, but
is estimated to average 10 hours per response (40 hours annually),
including time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data
sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and
reviewing the collection of information. Thus, the total respondent
burden for the BE-185 survey is estimated at 7,000 hours, compared to
5,000 hours estimated for the previous BE-85 survey. The increase in
burden is a result of the inclusion of transactions with affiliated
foreign persons.
Comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information should be addressed to: Director, Bureau of
Economic Analysis (BE-1), U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC
20230, fax: 202-606-5311; and the Office of Management and Budget,
O.I.R.A., Paperwork Reduction Project 0608-0065, Attention PRA Desk
Officer for BEA, via e-mail at pbugg@omb.eop.gov or by fax at 202-395-
7245.
Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Chief Counsel for Regulation, Department of Commerce, has
certified to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business
Administration, under provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5
U.S.C. 605(b)), that this rule will not have a significant economic
impact on a substantial number of small entities. The factual basis for
this certification was published with the proposed rule. No comments
were received regarding the economic impact of this rule. As a result,
no final regulatory flexibility analysis was prepared.
List of Subjects in 15 CFR Part 801
International transactions, Economic statistics, Financial
services, Foreign trade, Penalties, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
Dated: January 30, 2007.
J. Steven Landefeld,
Director, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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For the reasons set forth in the preamble, BEA amends 15 CFR Part 801,
as follows:
PART 801--SURVEY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SERVICES BETWEEN U.S.
AND FOREIGN PERSONS
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1. The authority citation for 15 CFR Part 801 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 15 U.S.C. 4908; 22 U.S.C. 3101-3108;
and E.O. 11961, 3 CFR, 1977 Comp., p. 86, as amended by E.O. 12318,
3 CFR, 1981 Comp., p. 173, and E.O. 12518, 3 CFR, 1985 Comp., p.
348.
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2. Revise Sec. 801.9(c)(4). to read as follows:
Sec. 801.9 Reports required.
(c) Quarterly surveys. * * *
(4) BE-185, Quarterly Survey of Financial Services Transactions
Between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Foreign Persons:
(i) A BE-185, Quarterly Survey of Financial Services Transactions
Between U.S. Financial Services Providers and Foreign Persons, will be
conducted covering the first quarter of the 2007 calendar year and
every quarter thereafter.
(A) Who must report--(1) Mandatory reporting. Reports are required
from each U.S. person who is a financial services provider or
intermediary, or whose consolidated U.S. enterprise includes a
separately organized subsidiary or part that is a financial services
provider or intermediary, and that had sales of covered services to
foreign persons that exceeded $20 million for the previous fiscal year
or expects sales to exceed that amount during the current fiscal year,
or had purchases of covered services from foreign persons that exceeded
$15 million for the previous fiscal year or expects purchases to exceed
that amount during the current fiscal year. These thresholds should be
applied to financial services transactions with foreign persons by all
parts of the consolidated U.S. enterprise combined that are financial
services providers or intermediaries. Because the thresholds are
applied separately to sales and purchases, the mandatory reporting
requirement may apply only to sales, only to purchases, or to both
sales and purchases. Quarterly reports for a year may be required
retroactively when it is determined that the exemption level has been
exceeded.
(i) The determination of whether a U.S. financial services provider
or intermediary is subject to this mandatory reporting requirement may
be based on the judgment of knowledgeable persons in a company who can
identify reportable transactions on a recall basis, with a reasonable
degree of certainty, without conducting a detailed records search.
(ii) Reporters who file pursuant to this mandatory reporting
requirement must provide data on total sales and/or purchases of each
of the covered types of financial services transactions and must
disaggregate the totals by country.
(2) Voluntary reporting. If a financial services provider or
intermediary, or all of a firm's subsidiaries or parts combined that
are financial services providers or intermediaries, had covered sales
of $20 million or less, or covered purchases of $15 million or less
during the previous fiscal year, and if covered sales or purchases are
not to expected to exceed these amounts in the current fiscal year, a
person is requested to provide an estimate of the total for each type
of service for the most recent quarter. Provision of this information
is
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voluntary. The estimates may be based on the reasoned judgment of the
reporting entity. Because these thresholds apply separately to sales
and purchases, voluntary reporting may apply only to sales, only to
purchases, or to both.
(B) BE-185 definition of financial services provider. The
definition of financial services provider used for this survey is
identical in coverage to Sector 52 B Finance and Insurance, and holding
companies that own or influence, and are principally engaged in making
management decisions for these firms (part of Sector 55 B Management of
Companies and Enterprises) of the North American Industry
Classification System, United States, 2002. For example, companies and/
or subsidiaries and other separable parts of companies in the following
industries are defined as financial services providers: Depository
credit intermediation and related activities (including commercial
banking, savings institutions, credit unions, and other depository
credit intermediation); nondepository credit intermediation (including
credit card issuing, sales financing, and other nondepository credit
intermediation); activities related to credit intermediation (including
mortgage and nonmortgage loan brokers, financial transactions
processing, reserve, and clearinghouse activities, and other activities
related to credit intermediation); securities and commodity contracts
intermediation and brokerage (including investment banking and
securities dealing, securities brokerage, commodity contracts dealing,
and commodity contracts brokerage); securities and commodity exchanges;
other financial investment activities (including miscellaneous
intermediation, portfolio management, investment advice, and all other
financial investment activities); insurance carriers; insurance
agencies, brokerages, and other insurance related activities; insurance
and employee benefit funds (including pension funds, health and welfare
funds, and other insurance funds); other investment pools and funds
(including open-end investment funds, trusts, estates, and agency
accounts, real estate investment trusts, and other financial vehicles);
and holding companies that own, or influence the management decisions
of, firms principally engaged in the aforementioned activities.
(C) Covered types of services. The BE-185 survey covers the
following types of financial services transactions (purchases and/or
sales) between U.S. financial services providers and foreign persons:
Brokerage services related to equities transactions; other brokerage
services; underwriting and private placement services; financial
management services; credit-related services, except credit card
services; credit card services; financial advisory and custody
services; securities lending services; electronic funds transfer
services; and other financial services.
(ii) [Reserved]
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[FR Doc. E7-1783 Filed 2-2-07; 8:45 am]
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