The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce is the government agency that compiles statistics about the U.S. economy, including the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). BEA also compiles statistics...more
The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis’s BE-12 Benchmark Survey for Foreign Direct Investment in the United States is due by May 31, 2023, or June 30, 2023 for reports submitted via eFile....more
U.S. companies with foreign ownership face a June 30 deadline to respond to a survey of foreign investment in the United States. The U.S. government is conducting the 2022 Benchmark Survey of Foreign Direct Investment in the...more
The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (“BEA”) conducts a benchmark survey on foreign direct investment every 5 years. The BE-12 survey is the BEA’s most comprehensive survey and produces statistics on the...more
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (“BEA”) of the U.S. Department of Commerce, which conducts a series of mandatory surveys on foreign investments in the U.S., has recently published Form BE-12, its five-year survey on foreign...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis ("BEA") collects data regarding U.S. multinational enterprise investments and prepares official U.S. economic statistics through a series of quarterly, annual, and...more
The International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act ("IITSSA"), 22 USC § 3101 requires the Bureau of Economic Analysis (“BEA”) within the U.S. Department of Commerce to conduct a national survey of foreign direct...more
While many U.S. funds and businesses may not be aware of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) or its reporting requirements, they are still obligated to submit a filing to the BEA by May 2023. The BE-12 benchmark survey is...more
1. Recent Enforcement Actions Outline the Need for Compliance Measures- Over the past few months, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) in the Department of Commerce have...more
Overview - The BE-180 report issued by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (the “BEA”) is a five-year benchmark survey that collects data on transactions between U.S. financial services providers...more
Many U.S. companies are unaware that a relatively unknown agency, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) at the Department of Commerce, administers mandatory reporting requirements that oblige ALL U.S. businesses to file...more
The BE-10 Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad (BE-10 Benchmark Survey) is a mandatory survey conducted once every five years by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce to obtain...more
I. Introduction - The BE-10 benchmark survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad is a survey conducted every five years by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (the "BEA") of the U.S. Department of Commerce in order to obtain...more
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has announced it is once again time for the BEA’s BE-10 Benchmark Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad. The BEA is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce and...more
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, published 10 notices on Jan. 27, 2020, regarding annual and quarterly surveys that track various types of foreign investment into the United...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) requires U.S. persons who control, directly or indirectly, at least 10 percent or more of the ownership interests in a foreign business enterprise to file a...more
The Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis ("BEA") is currently administering a BE-120 survey, which is an updated version of the BE-120 required in 2011. This time, however, if you are a U.S. person or entity,...more
Under the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act ("IITSSA"), 22 U.S.C. Section 3101, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (“BEA”) within the U.S. Department of Commerce mandates that, every five years, certain...more
The Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce (BEA) requires U.S. businesses in which a foreign person or entity owns or controls, directly or indirectly, more than 10 percent of the voting securities (a...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (“BEA”), conducts numerous surveys collecting economic data on a wide assortment of topics ranging from gross domestic product to domestic travel and tourism to...more
The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) requires each U.S. business enterprise in which a foreign person owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, 10 percent or more of the voting securities in an...more
In early 2018, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) will issue its mandatory five-year benchmark survey to obtain data on foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States. The survey, known...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), conducts seven (7) mandatory surveys to collect information on direct investment. These seven surveys consist of an initial survey for any new in-bound...more
At this time last year, we issued alerts advising U.S. companies of the approach of a recently imposed deadline to file reports with the Bureau of Economic Analysis (“BEA”), a little known agency within the Department of...more