OMB No. 0608-0058: Approval Expires xx/xx/2014 |
BEA Use Only Control Number |
Form BE-120 U.S. Department of Commerce
Bureau of Economic Analysis
BENCHMARK SURVEY OF TRANSACTIONS IN SELECTED SERVICES
AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WITH FOREIGN PERSONS
(This report is mandatory and confidential.)
Name and address of U.S. reporter –
Enter or correct as necessary
10001 Company Name:
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10002 Attention:
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10003 Address
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10004 City 10005 State: 10006 Zip Code:
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Complete and file this form or file electronically at http://www.bea.gov/efile.
Assistance is available at (202) 606-5588, M-F 8:30 A.M. – 5:00 P.M., eastern time.
How to file:
Step 1. Verify or correct name and address of the U.S. reporter named in the mailing label and complete Part 1.
Step 2. Complete Part 2 and Schedules A through F based on the instructions given in Part 2.
Step 3. File the completed form by May 15, 2012.
By filing electronically at: http://www.bea.gov/efile
mailing to: U.S. Department of Commerce
Bureau of Economic Analysis
BE-50 (SSB)
Washington D.C. 20230
delivering form to: U.S. Department of Commerce
Bureau of Economic Analysis
BE-50 (SSB)
Shipping and Receiving Section M-100
1441 L Street, N.W.
Washington D.C. 20005
or faxing form to : (202) 606-5318
Part 1 – U.S. Reporter Information
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3. Certification – The undersigned official certifies that this report has been prepared in accordance with the applicable instructions, is complete, and is substantially accurate except that, in accordance with IV. G of the General Instructions, estimates may have been prepared where the data are not available from customary accounting records or precise data could not be obtained without undue burden. |
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1 [ ] Yes 2 [ ] No
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Part 1
4. Enter the dates for your fiscal year that ended in calendar year 2011?
Beginning date . . . . . .
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Ending date . . . . . . . .
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5. Check the box that best describes the operating status of your company during the reporting period identified in question 4.
10009 1 [ ] In existence the entire reporting period – Skip question 6.
2 [ ] In existence during only part of the reporting period – Continue filling out this form for the portion of the
reporting period in which your company was in existence and, in the comments section below, explain why
your company did not exist for a part of the period.
3 [ ] Not in existence during the reporting period – Please return form according to instructions on page 1.
6. Was your company owned to the extent of more than 50 percent by another U.S. company at any point during the
reporting period identified in question 4?
10010 1 1 [ ] No – Continue with completion of the form.
2 [ ] Yes – Enter the name and address of the U.S. person or entity in the box and please return this form according to
the “How to file” instructions on page 1.
10011 1 Company name
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10012 1 Contact 10013 1 Telephone number
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10014 1 Street
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10015 1 City 10016 1 State 10017 1 Zip Code
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Comments
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Part 2 – Determination of Reporting Status
RECEIPTS FROM FOREIGN PERSONS |
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Table 1 |
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Did your receipts for the following transactions exceed $2 million during fiscal year 2011? |
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Trans- action code Types of transactions |
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Receipts for intellectual property |
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Rights related to industrial processes and products |
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Schedule A/E |
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Rights related to books, music, etc. |
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Schedule A/E |
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Rights related to trademarks, etc. |
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Schedule A/E |
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Rights related to performances and events pre-recorded on motion picture film and TV tape (include digital recordings) |
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Schedule A/E |
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Rights related to broadcast and recording of live performances and events |
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Schedule A/E |
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Rights to general use computer software |
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Schedule A/E |
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Business format franchising fees |
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Schedule A/E |
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Other intellectual property |
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Schedule A/E |
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Receipts for selected services |
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Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services |
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Schedule A |
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Advertising services |
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Schedule A |
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Auxiliary insurance services |
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Schedule A |
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Computer and data processing services |
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Schedule A |
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Construction services |
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Schedule C |
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Data base and other information services |
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Schedule A |
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Educational and training services |
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Schedule A |
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Engineering, architectural, and surveying services |
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Schedule C |
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Financial Services |
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Industrial engineering services |
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Schedule A |
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Industrial-type maintenance, installation, alteration, and training services |
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Schedule A |
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Legal services |
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Schedule A |
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Management, consulting, and public relations services (includes expenses allocated by a U.S. parent to its foreign affiliates) |
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Schedule A |
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Merchanting services |
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Schedule A/F |
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Mining services |
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Schedule C |
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Operational leasing services |
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Schedule A |
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Trade-related services, other than merchanting services |
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Schedule A |
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Performing arts, sports, and other live performances, presentations, and events |
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Schedule A |
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Premiums paid on primary insurance |
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Losses recovered on primary insurance |
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Research and development services |
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Schedule A |
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Telecommunication services |
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Schedule A |
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Agricultural services |
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Schedule A |
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Contract manufacturing services |
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Schedule D |
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Disbursements to fund production costs of motion pictures |
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Schedule A |
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Disbursements to fund news-gathering costs and production costs of program material other than news |
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Schedule A |
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Waste treatment and depollution services |
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Schedule A |
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Other selected services * |
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Schedule A |
If receipts for an individual type of intellectual property or service were $2 million or less, for that type of transaction, you must mark (X) “No.” You are encouraged to voluntarily report more detailed information on Schedule A, C, D, E, and/or F, as appropriate, because these data will make the aggregate totals more complete and accurate.
For Table 1, mark (X) “Yes” or “No” next to each type of transaction, to indicate whether your company’s total receipts from foreign persons exceeded $2 million during your fiscal year 2011.
*Receipts for other selected services include all services transactions and miscellaneous disbursements that are not separately listed above and are not explicitly excluded (see page 23 of the General Instructions). Receipts for other selected services exclude receipts for financial services (which are covered on a separate BEA survey); income on financial instruments (including interest, dividends, capital gains, etc.); taxes, penalties and fines, gifts or grants; transportation of freight or passengers; and travel-related services provided to individual travelers (including hotel accommodation and restaurant meals). See the General Instructions for a definition of services and a more complete discussion of the coverage of this survey.
Part 2 – Determination of Reporting Status - Continued
PAYMENTS TO FOREIGN PERSONS |
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Table 2 |
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Did your payments for the following transactions exceed $1 million during fiscal year 2011? |
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Trans- action code Types of transactions |
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Yes |
No |
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Payments for intellectual property |
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Rights related to industrial processes and products
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Schedule B/E |
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Rights related to books, music, etc.
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Schedule B/E |
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Rights related to trademarks, etc.
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Schedule B/E |
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Rights related to performances and events pre-recorded on motion picture film and TV tape (include digital recordings) |
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Schedule B/E |
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Rights related to broadcast and recording of live performances and events |
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Schedule B/E |
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Rights to general use computer software |
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Schedule B/E |
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Business format franchising fees |
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Schedule B/E |
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Other intellectual property |
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Schedule B/E |
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Payments for selected services |
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Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services |
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Schedule B |
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Advertising services |
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Schedule B |
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Auxiliary insurance services |
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Schedule B |
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Computer and data processing services |
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Schedule B |
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Construction services |
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Schedule B |
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Data base and other information services |
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Schedule B |
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Educational and training services |
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Schedule B |
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Engineering, architectural, and surveying services |
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Schedule B |
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Financial Services |
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Schedule B |
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Industrial engineering services |
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Schedule B |
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Industrial-type maintenance, installation, alteration, and training services |
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Schedule B |
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Legal services |
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Schedule B |
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Management, consulting, and public relations services (includes expenses allocated by a U.S. parent to its foreign affiliates) |
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Schedule B |
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Merchanting services |
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Mining services |
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Schedule B |
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Operational leasing services |
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Schedule B |
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Trade-related services, other than merchanting services |
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Schedule B |
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Performing arts, sports, and other live performances, presentations, and events |
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Schedule B |
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Premiums paid on primary insurance |
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Schedule B |
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Losses recovered on primary insurance |
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Schedule B |
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Research and development services |
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Schedule B |
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Telecommunication services |
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Schedule B |
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Agricultural services |
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Schedule B |
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Contract manufacturing services |
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Schedule D |
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Disbursements to fund production costs of motion pictures |
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Schedule B |
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Disbursements to fund news-gathering costs and production costs of program material other than news |
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Schedule B |
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Waste treatment and depollution services |
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Schedule B |
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Other selected services * |
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Schedule B |
If payments for an individual type of intellectual property or service were $1 million or less, for that type of transaction, you must mark (X) “No.” You are encouraged to voluntarily report more detailed information on Schedule B, D, and/or F because these data will make the aggregate totals more complete and accurate.
For Table 2, mark (X) “Yes” or “No” next to each type of transaction, to indicate whether your company’s total payments to foreign persons exceeded $1 million during your fiscal year 2011.
* Payments for other selected services include all services transactions and miscellaneous disbursements that are not separately listed above and are not explicitly excluded (see page 23 of the General Instructions). Payments for other selected services exclude payments for financial services by financial services firms (which are covered on a separate BEA survey); income on financial instruments (including interest, dividends, capital gains, etc.); taxes, penalties and fines, gifts or grants; transportation of freight or passengers; and travel-related services provided to individual travelers (including hotel accommodation and restaurant meals). See the General Instructions for a definition of services and a more complete discussion of the coverage of this survey.
Part 2 — DETERMINATION OF REPORTING STATUS — Continued
7. Enter the 4-digit code that best describes the major activity of the U.S. reporter from the
Summary of Industry Classifications found on pages 28 and 29 of the General Instructions.
11018
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8. What is the primary Employer Identification Number used by the U.S. reporter to file U.S.
income or payroll taxes?
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9. Will you be reporting ALL of your transactions on Schedules A through F either on a mandatory or
voluntary basis?
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1 [ ] Yes – Skip question 10 and continue to schedules.
2 [ ] No, the U.S. reporter will not be voluntarily reporting some transactions below the
reporting threshold on Schedules A- C – Continue to question 10.
10. If you had transactions below the reporting thresholds, and you choose not to report these
transactions by the type of transaction on the Schedules A-C voluntarily, provide an estimate of
the total amount of your receipts and/or payments below.
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Report in thousands of U.S. dollars |
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If you are not reporting mandatory or voluntary data on a schedule then STOP HERE and please return this form according to the “How to file” instructions on page 1.
Schedule A — U.S. REPORTER’S RECEIPTS (FROM FOREIGN PERSONS) FOR SELECTED SERVICES AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
If receipts from (sales to) foreign persons for a particular type of service covered by Schedule A exceeded $2,000,000, then you are required to
report transactions by country for that type of transaction on Schedule A. The all-countries total should be reported on line 33 with the country detail
reported on lines 1 through 32. If you need additional pages to report the country detail, please use the overflow sheets or make additional copies of
this schedule.
If receipts from (sales to) foreign persons for a particular type of service were $2,000,000 or less, then you are requested to report transactions by
country for that type of transaction on Schedule A. The all-countries total may be reported on line 33 with the country detail reported on lines 1
through 32, or you may report only the all countries total on line 34.
Enter the transaction code associated with the type of transaction, instead of the complete title of the transaction, in the column heading on Schedule
A. See V. of the General Instructions for complete descriptions of the transactions covered. If you are reporting transactions for more than two types of
services, please use the overflow sheets or make additional copies of this schedule.
Transactions for a type of service are reportable based on your relationship with the purchaser. For example, if you provided advertising services to a
foreign affiliate and to an unaffiliated foreign person, then you would enter "10" for advertising services under the heading "Transaction code" and
enter the appropriate dollar amounts in the columns under "Foreign affiliates" and "Unaffiliated foreign persons." Report in thousands of U.S. dollars.
If you report data for any of the transaction codes 1-8, then also complete Schedule E – Additional Reporting of Transactions (with Foreign Persons)
in Intellectual Property. If you report data for transaction code 22, then also complete Schedule F - Additional Reporting of Transactions (with Foreign
Persons) in Merchanting.
If you report data for transaction code 36, other selected services, then specify the major type of service on line 35.
Note that sales of transaction code 13, construction services; transaction code 16, engineering, architectural and surveying services; and transaction
code 23, mining services should be reported on Schedule C.
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Receipts for intellectual property |
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Rights related to industrial processes and products |
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Rights related to books, music, etc. |
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Rights related to trademarks |
4 |
Rights related to performances and events pre-recorded on motion picture film and TV tape (Include digital recordings) |
5 |
Rights related to broadcast and recording of live events and performances |
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Rights related to general use software |
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Business format franchising fees |
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Other intellectual property |
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Receipts for selected services |
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Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services |
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Advertising services |
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Auxiliary insurance services |
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Computer and data processing services |
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Data base and other information services |
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Educational and training services |
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Industrial engineering services |
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Industrial-type maintenance, installation, alteration, and training services |
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Legal services |
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Management, consulting, and public relations services (includes expenses allocated by a U.S. parent to its foreign affiliates) |
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Merchanting |
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Operational leasing services |
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Trade-related services, other than merchanting services |
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Performing arts, sports, and other live performances, presentations, and events |
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Research and development services |
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Telecommunications services |
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Agricultural services |
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Disbursements to fund production costs of motion pictures |
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Disbursements to fund news-gathering costs and production costs of program material other than news |
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Waste treatment and depollution services |
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Other selected services * |
SCHEDULE A — U.S. Reporter’s Receipts (from Foreign Persons) for Selected Services and Intellectual Property
Mandatory Reporting for Each Type of Transaction Exceeding $2 Million
RECEIPTS FROM
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Mandatory Data
1. Australia |
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2. Belgium |
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3. Brazil |
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4. Canada |
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5. China |
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6. France |
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7. Germany |
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8. Hong Kong |
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9. India |
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10. Israel |
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11. Italy |
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12. Japan |
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13. Luxembourg |
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14. Mexico |
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15. Netherlands |
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16. Philippines |
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17. Saudi Arabia |
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18. South Korea |
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19. Spain |
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20. Sweden |
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22. Taiwan |
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23. United Kingdom |
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24. Venezuela |
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35. If you reported data under transaction code 36, other selected services, specify the major type of service :
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36. If you reported data on a mandatory basis in Schedule A under transaction code 12, computer and data processing services, enter the approximate amount of the total for all countries combined that was for transactions in each of the following types of computer and data processing services. (Estimates may be based upon the judgment of knowledgeable persons, without conducting a detailed records search.) a. Data entry, processing, and tabulation |
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Schedule B — U.S. REPORTER’S PAYMENTS (TO FOREIGN PERSONS) FOR SELECTED SERVICES
If payments to (purchases from) foreign persons for a particular type of service exceeded $1,000,000, then you are required to report transactions
by country for that type of transaction on Schedule B. The all-countries total should be reported on line 33 with the country detail reported on lines 1
through 32. If you need additional pages to report the country detail, please use the overflow sheets or make additional copies of this schedule.
If payments to (purchases from) foreign persons for a particular type of service were $1,000,000 or less, then you are requested to report
transactions by country for that type of transaction on Schedule B. The all-countries total may be reported on line 33 with the country detail reported
on lines 1 through 32, or you may report only the all countries total on line 34.
Enter the transaction code associated with the type of transaction, instead of the complete title of the transaction, in the column heading on
Schedule B. See V. of the General Instructions for complete descriptions of the transactions covered. If you are reporting transactions for more than
two types of services, please use the overflow sheets or make additional copies of this schedule. Report in thousands of U.S. dollars.
Transactions for a type of service are reportable based on your relationship with the seller. For example, if you purchased advertising services from a
foreign affiliate and from an unaffiliated foreign person, then you would enter "10" for advertising services under the heading "Transaction code" and
enter the appropriate dollar amounts in the columns under "Foreign affiliates" and "Unaffiliated foreign persons."
If you report data for any of the transaction codes 1-8, then also complete Schedule E – Additional Reporting of Transactions (with Foreign Persons) in
Intellectual Property.
If you report data for transaction code 36, other selected services, then specify the major type of service on line 35.
Trans- action code |
Types of transactions |
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Payments for intellectual property |
1 |
Rights related to industrial processes and products |
2 |
Rights related to books, music, etc. |
3 |
Rights related to trademarks |
4 |
Rights related to performances and events pre-recorded on motion picture film and TV tape (Include digital recordings) |
5 |
Rights related to broadcast and recording of live events and performances |
6 |
Rights related to general use software |
7 |
Business format franchising fees |
8 |
Other intellectual property |
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Payments for selected services |
9 |
Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services |
10 |
Advertising services |
11 |
Auxiliary insurance services |
12 |
Computer and data processing services |
13 |
Construction Services |
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Data base and other information services |
15 |
Educational and training services |
16 |
Engineering, architectural, and surveying services |
17 |
Financial services |
18 |
Industrial engineering services |
19 |
Industrial-type maintenance, installation, alteration, and training services |
20 |
Legal services |
21 |
Management, consulting, and public relations services (includes expenses allocated by a foreign parent to its U.S. affiliates) |
23 |
Mining services |
24 |
Operational leasing services |
25 |
Trade-related services, other than merchanting services |
26 |
Performing arts, sports, and other live performances, presentations, and events |
27 |
Premiums paid on primary insurance |
28 |
Losses recovered on primary insurance |
29 |
Research and development services |
30 |
Telecommunications services |
31 |
Agricultural services |
33 |
Disbursements to fund production costs of motion pictures |
34 |
Disbursements to fund news-gathering costs and production costs of program material other than news |
35 |
Waste treatment and depollution services |
36 |
Other selected services * |
SCHEDULE B — U.S. Reporter’s Payments (to Foreign Persons) for Selected Services and Intellectual Property
Mandatory reporting for each type of transaction exceeding $1 million
PAYMENTS TO
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Mandatory Data
1. Australia |
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2. Belgium |
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3. Brazil |
202 |
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4. Canada |
100 |
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5. China |
650 |
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36. If you reported data on a mandatory basis in Schedule B under transaction code 12, computer and data processing services, enter the approximate amount of the total for all countries combined that was for transactions in each of the following types of computer and data processing services. (Estimates may be based upon the judgment of knowledgeable persons, without conducting a detailed records search.) a. Data entry, processing, and tabulation |
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Schedule C — SALES OF CONSTRUCTION SERVICES; ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURAL, AND SURVEYING SERVICES;
AND MINING SERVICES TO FOREIGN PERSONS
If sales to foreign persons (gross operating revenues) of a particular type of service covered by Schedule C exceeded $2,000,000,
then you are required to report transactions by country for that type of transaction on Schedule C. The all-countries total should be
reported on line 33 with the country detail reported on lines 1 through 32. If you need additional pages to report the country detail,
please use the overflow sheets or make additional copies of this schedule.
If sales to foreign persons (gross operating revenues) of a particular type of service were $2,000,000 or less, then you are
requested to report transactions by country for that type of transaction on Schedule C. The all-countries total may be reported on
line 33 with the country detail reported on lines 1 through 32, or you may report the all countries total only on line 34.
Enter the transaction code associated with the type of transaction, instead of the complete title of the transaction, in the column
heading on Schedule C. See V. of the General Instructions for complete descriptions of the transactions covered. If you are reporting
transactions for more than one type of service, please use the overflow sheets or make additional copies of this schedule.
Transactions for a type of service are reportable based on your relationship with the purchaser. For example, if you provided
construction services to a foreign affiliate and to an unaffiliated foreign person, then you would enter "13" for construction services
under the heading "Transaction code" and enter the dollar amounts in the gross operating revenues, goods exports, and/or foreign
expenses or disbursements in the columns under "Foreign affiliates" and "Unaffiliated foreign persons." Report in thousands of U.S.
dollars.
Gross operating revenues – Report revenues (sales) as recorded on your books for the value of services provided and/or
completed during the reporting period (not when actual payment is received).
Merchandise exports – Report the value of merchandise exports from the United States during the reporting period that were
made in connection with projects. Exports should include the value of equipment, supplies, materials, etc., and should equal the
amounts reported on the Shippers Export Declarations (SED) filed with U.S. Customs and Border Protection plus the cost of
transporting the goods to foreign destinations. Exclude temporary exports of equipment or other goods that are intended to be
returned to the United States within one year and in substantially the same condition as when exported (consistent with the SED
instructions regarding temporary exports).
Foreign expenses or disbursements – Report salaries and wages transmitted or disbursed abroad; expenses or outlays for
services (including purchases from foreign subcontractors), materials, and equipment purchases abroad; and other foreign
expenses (e.g., local taxes and fees for permits). (Do not report purchases of material and equipment for import into the United
States.)
Trans-action code |
Types of Transactions |
13 |
Construction Services |
16 |
Engineering, architectural, and surveying services |
23 |
Mining services |
SCHEDULE C — U.S. Reporter’s Sales of Construction Services; Engineering, Architectural, and Surveying Services; and
Mining Services to Foreign Persons (Only transactions codes 13, 16, 23 are to be reported on this
schedule. Do not combine transactions types.)
Mandatory reporting for each type of transaction exceeding $2 million
SALES TO
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BEA USE ONLY
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1. Australia |
601 |
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2. Belgium |
302 |
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3. Brazil |
202 |
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4. Canada |
100 |
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5. China |
650 |
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6. France |
307 |
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7. Germany |
308 |
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8. Hong Kong |
611 |
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9. India |
612 |
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10. Israel |
504 |
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11. Italy |
314 |
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12. Japan |
614 |
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13. Luxembourg |
316 |
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14. Mexico |
213 |
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15. Netherlands |
319 |
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16. Philippines |
623 |
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17. Saudi Arabia |
511 |
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18. South Korea |
626 |
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19. Spain |
323 |
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20. Sweden |
324 |
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21. Switzerland |
325 |
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22. Taiwan |
628 |
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23. United Kingdom |
327 |
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24. Venezuela |
219 |
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Schedule D — TRANSACTIONS (WITH FOREIGN PERSONS) ASSOCIATED WITH CONTRACT MANUFACTURING SERVICES
(Report all amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars)
Contract manufacturing services are manufacturing services on materials and components owned by others and covers processing,
assembly, labeling, packing, and so forth undertaken by businesses that do not own the goods concerned. The manufacturing is
undertaken by a business that does not own the goods and that is paid a fee by the owner of the goods. The ownership of the goods
does not change. Examples of processes that are undertaken under arrangements for manufacturing services include oil refining,
liquefaction of natural gas, assembly of clothing, electronics and other goods, and labeling and packing (excluding those incidental to
transport).
Section 1 – Receipts for Contract Manufacturing Services
Did you perform contract manufacturing services for foreign persons in fiscal year 2011?
1 [ ] Yes – Go to question 2.
2 [ ] Continue to Schedule D Section 2.
(Voluntary) Are you able to report the fee you received for performing contract manufacturing services? NOTE: This fee may include the cost of the materials you purchased to perform this service.
1 [ ] Yes – Enter the amount received from foreign persons for contract manufacturing services you performed on
goods owned by foreign persons and go to questions 3 and 4.
2 [ ] Continue to Schedule D Section 2.
Thousands of U.S. dollars
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The receipts for manufacturing services in question 3 were (check the appropriate box):
1 [ ] Based on accounting records.
2 [ ] Estimated by persons knowledgeable regarding these transactions.
Destination of goods produced after you performed contract manufacturing (check the appropriate box):
1 [ ] Goods remain in the United States
2 [ ] Goods are exported from the United States
3 [ ] A portion of the goods remain in the United States and a portion are exported from the United States
4 [ ] Destination is unknown
Section 2 – Payments for Contract Manufacturing Services
Did you purchase contract manufacturing services from foreign persons in fiscal year 2011?
1 [ ] Yes – Go to question 6.
2 [ ] Schedule D is complete.
(Voluntary) Are you able to report the fee you paid for contract manufacturing services?
1 [ ] Yes – Enter the amount you paid foreign persons for contract manufacturing services and go to questions
7 and 8.
2 [ ] Schedule D is complete.
Thousands of U.S. Dollars
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The payments for manufacturing services in question 6 were (check the appropriate box):
1 [ ] Based on accounting records.
2 [ ] Estimated by persons knowledgeable regarding these transactions.
Destination of goods produced after you purchased contract manufacturing (check the appropriate box):
1 [ ] Goods do not enter United States
2 [ ] Goods are imported into the United States
3 [ ] A portion of the goods remain abroad and a portion are imported into the United States
4 [ ] Destination is unknown
Schedule E – ADDITIONAL REPORTING OF TRANSACTIONS (WITH FOREIGN PERSONS) IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Section 1 – Receipts from Intellectual Property
1. Did you report receipts from intellectual property transactions (transaction codes 1-8) on Schedule A?
1 [ ] Yes – Go to question 2.
2 [ ] No – Go to Section 2.
2. Are you able to distribute the total receipts from intellectual property transactions you reported on Schedule A by the following three
categories? Note: The second category below does not apply to transaction codes 1, 3 or 7.
• Receipts for the right to use
• Receipts for the right to reproduce and/or redistribute
• Receipts for the outright sale
1 [ ] Yes – Go to question 3.
2 [ ] No – Go to Section 2.
3. (Voluntary) Distribute the total receipts from intellectual property transactions you reported on Schedule A by the three categories below. (Report in thousands of U.S. dollars)
Trans- action Code |
Right to use |
Right to reproduce and/or distribute |
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4 Pre-recorded performances |
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5 Broadcast/recording of live events |
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6 General use computer software |
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7 Franchise fees |
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4. If the distribution of total receipts by category was provided in Question 3 then check the appropriate box:
1 [ ] Based on accounting records.
2 [ ] Estimated by persons knowledgeable regarding these transactions.
Section 2 – Payments for Intellectual Property
5. Did you report payments from intellectual property transactions (transaction codes 1-8) on Schedule B?
1 [ ] Yes – Go to question 6.
2 [ ] No – Schedule E is complete.
6. Are you able to distribute the total payments from intellectual property transactions you reported on Schedule B by the following three
categories? Note: The second category below does not apply to transaction codes 1, 3 or 7.
• Payments for the right to use
• Payments for the right to reproduce and/or redistribute
• Payments for the outright sale
1 [ ] Yes – Go to question 7.
2 [ ] No – Schedule E is complete.
7. (Voluntary) Distribute the total payments from intellectual property transactions you reported on Schedule B by the three categories
below. (Report in thousands of U.S. dollars)
Trans- action Code |
Right to use |
Right to reproduce and/or distribute |
Outright purchase |
1 Industrial processes and products |
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3 Trademarks |
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7 Franchise fees |
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8. The distribution of total payments by category in Question 7 was (check the appropriate box):
1 [ ] Based on accounting records.
2 [ ] Estimated by persons knowledgeable regarding these transactions.
Schedule F – ADDITIONAL REPORTING OF TRANSACTIONS (WITH FOREIGN PERSONS) IN MERCHANTING
1. Are you able to report the value of sales and purchases of the goods sold under the merchanting
transactions you reported on Schedule A (Note: Sales of merchanting services are equal to the difference
between your cost and the resale price of goods (such as crude oil, grain, and other commodities) that are
both purchased and resold abroad; that is, the goods are neither imported to, nor exported from, the United
States and they do not undergo significant processing during the time between when they are purchased and
resold.)
1 [ ] Yes – Go to question 2.
2 [ ] No – Schedule F is complete.
2. (Voluntary) Enter the value of sales and purchases of the goods sold under the merchanting
transactions you reported on Schedule A.
Thousands of U.S. dollars
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3. The sales and purchases recorded in Question 2 were (check the appropriate box):
1 [ ] Based on accounting records.
2 [ ] Estimated by persons knowledgeable regarding these transactions.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
Public reporting burden for this BE-120 report is estimated to average
12 hours per response. This burden includes time for reviewing
instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and
maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the
collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden
estimate to Chief, Balance of Payments Division (BE-58), U.S.
Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Washington, DC 20230; and to the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project 0608-0058, Washington, DC 20503.
Purpose – The Benchmark Survey of Transactions in Selected Services
and Intellectual Property with Foreign Persons – 2011 is conducted by
the Department of Commerce to obtain data on the size and economic
significance of these transactions. The information collected will be used to help develop U.S. international economic policy, and analyze the impact of that policy and the policies of foreign countries on international trade in services and intellectual property. The data will also be used in compiling the U.S. international transactions and national income and product accounts.
Authority – This survey is being conducted under the authority of
the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act (P.L.
94-472, 90 Stat. 2059, 22 U.S.C. 3101-3108, as amended – hereinafter
"the Act"), and the filing of reports is mandatory under Section 5(b)(2)
of the Act (22 U.S.C. 3104). Regulations for the survey may be found
in 15 CFR Part 801.
Penalties – Whoever fails to report may be subject to a civil penalty
of not less that $2,500, and not more than $25,000, and to injunctive
relief commanding such person to comply, or both. These civil
penalties are subject to inflationary adjustments. Those adjustments
are found in 15 CFR 6.4. Whoever willfully fails to report shall be
fined not more that $10,000 and, if an individual, may be imprisoned
for not more than one year, or both. Any officer, director, employee,
or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in such
violations, upon conviction, may be punished by a like fine,
imprisonment, or both. (See 22 U.S.C. 3105.) Notwithstanding the
above, a U.S. person is not subject to any penalty for failure to
report if a valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control
number is not displayed on the form; such a number (0608-0058) is
displayed at the top of the first page of this form.
Confidentiality – The Act provides that your report to this Bureau is
CONFIDENTIAL and may be used only for analytical or statistical
purposes. Without your prior written permission, the information filed
in your report CANNOT be presented in a manner that allows it to be
individually identified. Your report CANNOT be used for purposes of
taxation, investigation, or regulation. Copies retained in your files are
immune from legal process.
NOTES —
1. A single original copy of this report must be filed with the
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA); please use the copy with your address information printed on it if such a copy has been provided.
2. Currency amounts should be reported in U.S. dollars rounded
to thousands (omitting 000). EXAMPLE – If the amount is
$1,000,000, report as $1,000. Amounts less than $500.00 round
to "0" and should, therefore, be omitted.
I. WHO IS TO REPORT AND GENERAL COVERAGE
A. Who is to report and transactions to be reported
1. Mandatory reporting – A BE-120 report is required from
each U.S. person (see General Instruction II for definition of
person) that had sales in excess of $2,000,000 or purchases in
excess of $1,000,000 with foreign persons in any of the
services or intellectual property listed in V. of these General
Instructions during the U.S. person’s 2011 fiscal year. The
determination of whether a U.S. person is subject to this
mandatory reporting requirement may be judgmental, that is,
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. Reporters who
must report sales pursuant to this mandatory requirement
must complete Table 1 and Schedule A and/or C, of this
form, and reporters who must report purchases pursuant to
this mandatory requirement must complete Table 2 and
Schedule B of this form. The total amounts of transactions
applicable to a particular schedule are to be entered in
the appropriate column(s) on line 33 of the schedule. In addition,
these amounts must be distributed above line 33 to the
country(ies) involved in the transaction(s).
2. Voluntary reporting – If, during the U.S. person’s fiscal year,
the U.S. person’s total sales were $2,000,000 or less or total
purchases were $1,000,000 or less in any of the types of
services or intellectual property listed in V. of these General
Instructions, the U.S. person is requested to provide an
estimate of the total for each type of service or intangible asset
on the appropriate schedule(s). Provision of this information is
voluntary. The estimates may be judgmental, that is, based on
recall, without conducting a detailed records search. Voluntary
data should be entered onto line 34 of Schedule A, and/or C for
sales and Schedule B for purchases for the type of service or
intangible asset transaction that you are reporting. (If
information on the countries of the transactions is available, it
would be helpful if the transactions were reported on lines 1
through 33 on the appropriate schedule; however, disaggregation
by country is not required.) Reporters who elect to file pursuant to
the voluntary reporting option must complete Parts 1 and 2 of
the form.
In addition, some aspects Schedules D, E, and F are to be reported
on a voluntary basis.
3. Exemption – A U.S. person that receives this form from BEA
but is not required to report data on a mandatory basis, and
that has no transactions of the type covered or that elects not
to report some or all data on a voluntary basis, must complete
Parts 1 and 2 and return this form according to the “How to file”
instructions on page 1.
B. BE-120 definition of services – Services are economic activities
whose outputs are other than tangible goods. This term includes,
but is not limited to, banking, other financial services, insurance,
transportation, communications and data processing, retail and
wholesale trade, advertising, accounting, construction, design,
engineering, management consulting, real estate, professional
services, entertainment, education, and health care.
The BE-120 survey’s transactions consist of receipts and payments
for services as commonly defined and understood (examples are
given below) as well as transactions in intellectual property, including
transactions in patents and copyrights, and charges that may be
recorded in business accounting records under a variety of names,
such as allocated expenses, headquarter expenses, or miscellaneous
charges. (However, not all services transactions are covered by the
BE-120 survey – see below for a list of exclusions.) For example,
services transactions include receipts and payments for the following
categories of services:
1. Education, financial, construction, telecommunications, and
other private services, including rents under operating leases.
2. Rights to use, copy, distribute, or acquire or sell intellectual property
such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, formulae, etc.
3. Charges that companies assess against their foreign units for
overhead, management services, R&D, advertising, and other
support activities.
Types of transactions excluded from coverage of this survey:
1. Purchases or sales of goods. Trade in goods involves
products that have a physical form, and includes purchases
or sales of electricity.
2. Purchases or sales of financial instruments, including
stocks, bonds, financial derivatives, loans, mutual fund
shares, and negotiable CDs. (However, securities brokerage
is a service.) Also excludes receipts of premiums (and related
losses or benefits) on insurance policy and annuities.
3. Income on financial instruments (interest, dividends,
capital gain distributions, etc).
4. Compensation paid to, or received by, employees.
5. Taxes, penalties and fines, gifts or grants (sometimes
called "unilateral transfers").
6. Goodwill.
For additional clarifications of reporting requirements, please continue reading the BE-120 survey instructions, or call (202) 606-5588.
C. BE-120 definition of receipts and payments
It should be noted that an item other than receipts or payments may
be used as the measure of a given service for purposes of
determining whether the threshold for mandatory reporting of the
service is exceeded. Note that in several cases – advertising;
telecommunications; performing arts, etc.; merchanting; miscellaneous
disbursements (some of which are included in transaction code 36 and
some of which are included in transaction codes 33 and 34 in V. of
these General Instructions) – measures other than, or in addition
to, sales or purchases of services should be used. See V. of these
General Instructions for an explanation of what measure should
be applied in determining whether you are subject to the BE-120
survey’s mandatory reporting requirements for a given service.
D. Clarification of coverage and special situations
1. Reporting period – The reporting period is the U.S. reporter’s
2011 fiscal year (see definition II.O. below).
2. Date of recording transactions – Transactions are to be
reported on an accrual basis. However, telecommunications
services are to be reported on a settlement basis.
3. Withholding taxes – Data should be reported gross of U.S.
and foreign withholding taxes.
4. Services covered regardless of where performed –
Services sold to, or purchased from, foreign persons should be
reported by country of transactor regardless of whether the services
were performed in the United States or abroad.
5. Services or intellectual property bundled with goods or
with other services and not separately valued – When a
sale or purchase consists of both goods and services or
intellectual property, or of several services or intellectual property,
that cannot be unbundled (i.e., the goods and/or
services/intellectual property are not separately valued), it
should be classified based on whichever accounts for the
largest share of the value or on the basis of the reporter’s
customary practice.
6. Accounting for purchases – Purchases of services or
intellectual property should be included without regard to
whether they are charged as an expense on the income
statement, capitalized, or charged to inventories.
7. Partnerships – A partnership is a business enterprise and
must report if it has transactions covered by this survey. The
report must be for, and the data and information must cover,
the partnership as a whole, not just the activities of an
individual partner.
8. Projects with U.S. Government nonmilitary agencies –
Report information on services that are provided abroad for
U.S. Government nonmilitary agencies, such as the Agency
for International Development and the United States
Information Agency, or that are part of an aid or technical
cooperation program of the Government with foreign
persons
9. Projects with U.S. Government military agencies – Report
foreign expenditures associated with the services provided to
the U.S. Department of Defense on the BE-120. Do not report
services provided abroad for the U.S. Department of Defense or any
of its agencies, such as the Army Corps of Engineers.
10. International organizations – Report transactions with
international organizations, which, according to balance of
payments conventions, are considered foreign persons even
if they are headquartered in the United States. Enter the
abbreviated designation, "Int’l Org." as the name of the
country of the foreign party to the transaction.
11. Internet transactions – Reporting requirements are
determined by who the transactions are with and not by
where the services are performed or the location of the buyer
and seller at the time of the transaction. Thus, reportable
transactions include those conducted over the Internet or
other networks.
12. Reciprocal exchanges – Include the value of reciprocal
exchanges; i.e., transactions involving barter. On Schedule A,
value your sales to the foreign participant in the reciprocal
exchange at market rates, not at the actual cost of performing
the services. On Schedule B, value your purchases from the
foreign participant at the same amount as the sale reported
on Schedule A.
E. Consolidation
If the U.S. Reporter is a corporation, please complete Form BE-120
to cover reportable transactions for the fully consolidated U.S.
domestic enterprise consisting of (i) the U.S. corporation whose
voting securities are not owned more than 50 percent by another
U.S. corporation, and, proceeding down each ownership chain
from that U.S. corporation, (ii) any U.S. corporation whose voting
securities are more than 50-percent owned by the U.S. corporation
above it.
The fully consolidated U.S. domestic enterprise excludes foreign
branches and other foreign affiliates.
Conditions may exist that would lead a U.S. corporation to
exclude certain majority-owned (more than 50-percent owned)
domestic subsidiaries from financial statements used in reports
to shareholders. If such a subsidiary has covered transactions, it
must file a report under its own name, and the subsidiary will be
considered the U.S. reporter for purposes of this survey.
II. DEFINITIONS
A. U.S. reporter is the U.S. person filing a report in this survey
(see I.E. for further clarification).
B. United States, when used in a geographic sense, means the
several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, and all territories and possessions of the United
States.
C. Foreign, when used in a geographic sense, means that which is
situated outside the United States or which belongs to or is
characteristic of a country other than the United States.
D. 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).
1. United States person means any person resident in
the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the
United States.
2. Foreign person means any person resident outside the
United States or subject to the jurisdiction of a country
other than the United States.
E. Business enterprise means any organization, association,
branch, or venture which exists for profit making purposes or
to otherwise secure economic advantage, and any ownership
of any real estate. (A business enterprise is a "person" within
the definition in paragraph D above.)
F. Direct investment means the ownership or control, directly or
indirectly, by one person of 10 percent or more of the voting
securities of an incorporated business enterprise or an equivalent
interest in an unincorporated business enterprise.
G. Parent means a person of one country who, directly or indirectly,
owns or controls 10 percent or more of the voting stock of an
incorporated business enterprise, or an equivalent ownership
interest in an unincorporated business enterprise, which is located
outside that country.
1. U.S. parent means the U.S. person that has direct investment
in a foreign business enterprise.
2. Foreign parent means the foreign person, or the first person
outside the United States in a foreign chain of ownership,
which has direct investment in a U.S. business enterprise,
including a branch.
H. Affiliated foreign group means (i) the foreign parent, (ii) any
foreign person, proceeding up the foreign parent’s ownership
chain, which owns more than 50 percent of the person below it
up to and including that person which is not owned more than 50
percent by another foreign person, and (iii) any foreign person,
proceeding down the ownership chain(s) of each of these
members, which is owned more than 50 percent by the person
above it.
I. Affiliate means a business enterprise located in one country that
is directly or indirectly owned or controlled by a person of another
country to the extent of 10 percent or more of its voting stock for
an incorporated business or an equivalent interest for an
unincorporated business, including a branch.
1. Foreign affiliate means an affiliate located outside the
United States in which a U.S. person has direct investment.
2. U.S. affiliate means an affiliate located in the United States
in which a foreign person has direct investment.
3. Foreign affiliate of a foreign parent means with reference
to a given U.S. affiliate, any member of the affiliated foreign
group owning the U.S. affiliate that is not a foreign parent of
the U.S. affiliate.
J. Affiliated foreign person means, with respect to a given U.S.
person, (i) a foreign affiliate of which the U.S. person is a U.S.
parent, or (ii) the foreign parent or other member of the affiliated
foreign group of which the U.S. person is a U.S. affiliate.
K. Unaffiliated foreign person means, with respect to a given U.S.
person, any foreign person that is not an affiliated foreign person
as defined in paragraph J above.
L. Fiscal year is the U.S. reporter’s financial reporting year that has
an ending date in calendar year 2011.
M. Country means, for purposes of this survey, the country of location
of the foreign person with whom a transaction has occurred.
III. GUIDELINES FOR CATEGORIZING ACTIVITIES
A. Distinguishing between unaffiliated and affiliated
Transactions
This survey covers U.S. persons’ direct transactions, both sales
and purchases, with affiliated and unaffiliated foreign persons.
Examples of affiliated transactions are:
1. A transaction between a U.S. person (U.S. parent) and its
foreign affiliate.
2. A transaction between a U.S. person (U.S. affiliate) and its
foreign parent(s) or member(s) of the affiliated foreign group(s).
Examples of unaffiliated transactions are:
1. A transaction between a U.S. person and an unaffiliated
foreign person.
2. A transaction between one U.S. person and another U.S.
person’s foreign affiliate. Such a transaction is reportable by
the first U.S. person.
Examples of transactions that are not reportable are:
1. A transaction between a U.S. affiliate of a foreign parent and
another U.S. person.
2. A transaction between a U.S. parent’s foreign affiliate and
another foreign person.
B. Foreign activities of a U.S. person that do not constitute a
foreign affiliate
Although the definitions of direct investment and foreign affiliate
in II. above, together with the discussion in III.A. above, is usually
sufficient to determine whether a given foreign activity is or
is not a foreign affiliate, in a number of cases the determination
may be difficult. Several factors to be considered are given
below. If you still cannot determine if the activity or operation is
an affiliate, call (202) 606-5588 for additional guidance.
If a U.S. person’s foreign activity or operation is incorporated
abroad, it is a foreign affiliate.
If a U.S. person’s foreign activity or operation is not
incorporated abroad, its status is based on the weight of the
evidence when the factors listed below are considered.
An unincorporated foreign activity or operation generally would
be considered a foreign affiliate if it: (i) is subject to foreign
income taxes; (ii) has a substantial physical presence abroad
(e.g., plant and equipment or employees); (iii) maintains
separate financial records that would permit the preparation of
financial statements, including an income statement and balance
sheet (not just a record of disbursements and receipts); (iv) takes
title to the goods it sells and receives revenues therefrom; or (v)
receives funds for its own account from customers for services it
performs. Transactions with this type of entity should be
reported under "Foreign affiliates."
An unincorporated foreign activity or operation generally would
not be considered a foreign affiliate if it: (i) conducts business
abroad only for the U.S. person’s account and not for its own
account (e.g., sales promotion or public relations type of
activities); (ii) has no separate financial statements; (iii) receives
funds to cover its expenses only from the U.S. person; (iv) is not
subject to foreign income taxes; and (v) has limited physical
assets, or employees, permanently located abroad. Transactions
with this type of entity should be reported under "Unaffiliated
foreign persons."
C. U.S. activities of a foreign person that do not constitute a
U.S. affiliate
Criteria for determining which U.S. activities do or do not
constitute a U.S. affiliate of a foreign person are parallel to those
in III.B. above.
D. Determining who must report a transaction when an
intermediary is involved
At times, transactions between a U.S. person and a foreign
person may be arranged by, billed through, or otherwise
facilitated by, an intermediary. The intermediary may be U.S. or
foreign, and may be affiliated or unaffiliated with the U.S., or the
foreign, person.
A determination of whom a sale is to, or who a purchase is from, shall
be made on the basis of whom the U.S. person considers itself to
have a claim on for payment, in the case of a sale, or whom it has a
liability to, in the case of a purchase. For a sale, if the U.S. person
looks to the foreign person for payment, then the transaction is
between the U.S. person and the foreign person, and is to be
reported by the U.S. person. If the U.S. person looks to the
intermediary for payment, and the intermediary, in turn, looks to the
foreign person for payment, then whether either transaction is
reportable, and who it is to be reported by, depends on the location of
the intermediary and the relationship between the U.S. person and
the intermediary.
If the intermediary is a foreign person, then the U.S. person
would report the transaction, as a transaction with a foreign
person.
If the intermediary is a U.S. person, then the initial transaction
between the original U.S. person and the intermediary is
domestic-to-domestic and not reportable in this survey. However,
the intermediary must report the transaction with the foreign
person.
The reporting of a purchase would be determined in a similar
manner.
IV. REPORTING PROCEDURES
A. Due date – A completed BE-120 report, consisting of Parts 1
and 2 and, as appropriate, the applicable schedule(s) is due
May 15, 2012.
B. Fiscal year reporting period – This report covers a year,
which is your most recent year that ended on or before
December 31, 2011. If your most recent fiscal year ended
after December 31, 2011, please call for assistance.
C. For assistance or additional copies of the forms – Phone
(202) 606–5588 between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., eastern time. A
copy of the form may be downloaded from
www.bea.gov/bea/surveys/iussurv.htm. To receive a copy of
frequently asked questions (FAQ’s) send an E-mail to
BE120faq@bea.gov or go to www.bea.gov to view the BE-120
FAQ’s. To obtain an electronic spreadsheet template of the BE-120,
then send an email mail to be120@bea.gov
D. Extension – Requests for an extension of the reporting deadline
will not normally be granted. However, in a hardship case, a
request for an extension will be considered if it is received
at least 15 days before the due date. Requests for extensions should
sent via E-mail to BE120extension@bea.gov. BEA will provide a
response to your request.
E. Original and file copies – A single original copy of the form
must be filed with BEA. Please use the copy with the address
label if such a labeled copy has been provided. In addition,
each U.S. reporter must retain a copy of its form for three years
to facilitate resolution of problems.
F. Where to send the report – Send reports filed by mail
through the U.S. Postal Service to:
U.S. Department of Commerce
Bureau of Economic Analysis
BE-50(SSB)
Washington, DC 20230
Direct reports filed by private delivery service to:
U.S. Department of Commerce
Bureau of Economic Analysis, BE-50(SSB)
Shipping & Receiving Section M-100
1441 L Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005
Fax the report to: (202) 606-5318.
Reports may be filed electronically at www.bea.gov/efile.
G. Estimates – If actual figures are not available, report estimates
and label them as such.
V. SERVICES COVERED
A. Transactions in Intellectual Property
Report receipts on Schedule A and payments on Schedule B.
If you report transactions related to intellectual property on
Schedule A or Schedule B then you are required to complete
Schedule E of the survey.
1. Rights related to industrial processes and products –
Include license fees, royalties, and other fees received or paid for
the, sale or purchase, right to use, or right to reproduce or distribute
intellectual property, including patents, trade secrets, and other
proprietary rights, that are used in connection with, or related to, the
production of goods. (For example, include "maintenance" fees paid to
foreign governments for the continuation of patent rights.) If the charge
for the process, design, etc., is subsumed in a contract for technical or
professional services, the receipt or payment generally should be
reported under the proper transaction number for that type of service.
2. Rights related to books, music, etc. –
Include royalties and other fees received or paid for the rights to
perform, broadcast, reproduce, and sell as books (include books and
magazines downloaded from the Internet), CD’s, digital
music, etc., or otherwise use copyrighted material and other
intellectual property. Exclude fees for the right to display, reproduce,
or distribute pre-recorded television tape or motion picture
film; such charges should be reported under transaction code 4.
3. Rights related to trademarks – Include receipts and payments
for the rights to sell products under a particular trademark, brand
name, or signature. Include the initial fee and annual fees for the
domain name registration for the Internet and the receipt and
payment from the sale of a previously registered name. Include
fees for sponsorship of other events if the fee is for the right to
use the logo or trademark of the payee.
A sponsor of an international sporting event, such as the Olympics,
should include payments of sponsorship fees if the right to use a
trademark, such as the Olympic logo, in advertising, or to place
such a trademark on merchandise is conveyed. Fees paid for the
display of the payer’s logo or trademark are reported under
transaction code 10 as advertising payments. Exclude fees received
or paid under a business format franchise (which are reportable
under transaction code 7).
4. Rights related to performances and events pre-recorded on
motion picture film and TV tape (include digital recordings)–
Include royalties, license fees, and other funds received or
paid, including those from outright sales and purchases, for the rights
to display, reproduce, or distribute material pre-recorded on motion
picture film or television tape (include digital recordings and video
streaming). Include payments and receipts for all uses, including
theatrical, cable, broadcast television, and non-theatrical. Production
costs associated with pre-recorded content should be reported under
transaction code 33 or 34.
5. Rights related to broadcasting and recording of live
performances and events – Include receipts and payments for
rights to record and/or broadcast "live" artistic performances,
sports events, and other live performances or events. Payments
(or receipts) for the acquisition (or sale) of rights to broadcast a
major live performance or event, such as the Olympics, often
extend over several years prior to the event. The cumulative
amount of payments over all the years is to be reported on this
form as an acquisition or sale of broadcast rights only in a single
year in which the event is actually held. The prior-year payments
are considered to be deposits with the organization (such as the
International Olympic Committee) selling the broadcast rights, and
should be reported on the Department of Treasury’s TIC C-form.
Inquiries about the TIC C-form survey should be directed to the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (as contractor for the Treasury
Department) at (212) 720-2542. Production costs associated with
broadcasting live events should be reported under transaction
code 34.
6. Rights to general use computer software – Include receipts
and payments for rights to distribute general use software, and
rights to reproduce or use general use computer software that
was made from a master copy. This item includes licensing fees for
reproducing copies of general use software for local area network
computer systems.
The item excludes the value of prepackaged general use software not
intended for use on a server in a LAN environment that was physically
shipped to or from the United States and non-customized
(prepackaged) computer software on physical media for perpetual use
shipped to or from the United States and reported on the import or
export declaration filed with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
In addition, exclude fees for custom software and programming
services, which are reportable under transaction code 12. Fees
received or paid for the development of general use software should
be reported under transaction code 29. Software downloaded or
otherwise electronically delivered should be reported under
transaction code 12.
7. Business format franchising fees – Fees received and paid
by the U.S. reporter under business format franchising agreements
with foreign persons.
Business format franchising is characterized by an ongoing
business relationship between franchisor and franchisee that
includes not only the product, service, and trademark, but the
entire business format itself. This may include a marketing strategy
and plan, operating manuals and standards, quality control, and
continuing two-way communications. Exclude receipts and
payments for the use of trademarks (reportable under transaction
code 3), except where such trademarks are part of a business
format franchise, even if the fees are nominally considered to be
"franchising" fees.
Receipts and payments should be reported net of advertising
allowances and other deductions retained by franchisees from
gross franchise fees. Include receipts and payments for one-time
"up front" charges to new franchisees as well as ongoing fees
based upon sales or other measures.
In Schedule A, U.S. franchisors should report receipts from
both foreign outlets and foreign master licensees. In the case
of fees received from a foreign master licensee, report only the
net fees received from foreign outlets. Include receipts from
"company-owned" outlets abroad. Include receipts from jointly
owned outlets.
In Schedule B, U.S. outlets and master licensees should report
payments made directly to foreign franchisors. U.S. outlets
should not report payments to U.S. master licensees, as these
are domestic (U.S.-to-U.S.) transactions. Payments by a
"company-owned" U.S. outlet to a foreign owner should be
reported.
8. Other intellectual property – Include receipts and payments
involving intellectual property not classified in one of the preceding
categories. Include receipts or payments by communications
carriers to secure capacity by indefeasible right of user (IRU’s).
For entries in this column, please specify on line 35 of the
appropriate schedule the type of intangible right involved. Goodwill is
not an intangible asset or service and should be excluded from the
survey.
B. Transactions in Selected Services
Report receipts on Schedule A (except transaction codes 13, 16, 23,
and 32) and payments on Schedule B (except transaction code 32).
Report receipts for transaction codes 13, 16, and 23 on Schedule C.
Report sales and purchases of contract manufacturing services on
Schedule D.
9. Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services –
Excludes data processing and tabulation services.
10. Advertising services – Preparation of advertising and placement
of such advertising in media, including marketing expenses and
charges for media space and time. Include advertising banners
on web pages.
Exclude charges for services other than advertising, such as public
relations services or market research not directly associated with an
advertising campaign. Such services should be reported under
transaction code 21.
Under receipts for advertising services, U.S. media companies
(e.g., broadcasters, publishers, etc.) should report only direct sales
of advertising services to foreign persons; they should not report
advertising arranged by U.S. advertising agencies, including
U.S. affiliates of foreign advertising agencies.
Under payments of advertising services, U.S. advertising agencies
should report only funds paid to foreign advertising agencies and
media companies on behalf of their clients. U.S. reporters other than
advertising agencies should report only payments made directly to
foreign advertising agencies and media companies.
Include the value of reciprocal exchanges; i.e., transactions
involving barter. On Schedule A, value your receipts from the foreign
participant in the reciprocal exchange at market rates, not at the
actual cost of performing the services. On Schedule B, value your
payments from the foreign participant at the same amount as the
sales reported on Schedule A.
11. Auxiliary insurance services – Agent’s commissions,
insurance brokering and agency services, insurance consulting
services, evaluation and adjustment services, actuarial services,
salvage administration services, and regulatory and monitoring
services on indemnities and recovery services. Non-insurance
companies report these transactions on the BE-120. Insurance
companies report these transactions on the BE-45, Quarterly
Survey of Insurance Transactions by U.S. Insurance Companies
with Foreign Persons.
12. Computer and data processing services – Customized
software (however delivered) and related licenses to use; the
development, production, supply, and documentation of customized
software, including operating systems, made to order for specific
users; noncustomized (mass-produced) software downloaded or
otherwise electronically delivered, whether with a periodic license or
a single payment; licenses to use noncustomized software provided
on a storage device with a periodic license fee; sales or purchases of
originals and ownership rights for software systems and applications;
hardware and software consultancy and implementation services,
including the management of subcontracted computer services;
hardware and software installation, including installation of
mainframes and central computing units; maintenance and repairs of
computers and peripheral equipment; data recovery services;
analysis, design, and programming if systems ready to use (including
web page development and design), and technical consultancy
related to software; systems maintenance and other support
services, including training provided as part of consultancy; data
processing and hosting services (cloud services or “wiki”), such as
data entry, tabulation, and processing on a time-sharing basis; web
page hosting services; and provision of applications, hosting clients’
applications, and computer facilities management. Software includes
general business productivity software, computer game software and
other applications.
This item includes software downloaded on the Internet, fees and
subscriptions for on-line gaming (includes video games), and
licensing agreements and end user fees associated with
downloading applications on to smart phones and PDA’s. Fees for
developing such applications should be reported under transaction
code 29.
Exclude non-customized (prepackaged) computer software on
physical media for perpetual use shipped to or from the United States
and reported on the import or export declaration filed with the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection. Also exclude computer training
courses not designed for a specific user (include in transaction code
15), charges for licenses to reproduce or distribute software (include
in transaction code 6), and leasing of computers with an operator
(include in transaction code 24).
13. Construction services – Creation, renovation, repair or extension of
buildings, land improvements, and engineering construction of roads,
bridges, dams, etc. It also includes related installation and assembly
work. It includes site preparation and general construction as well as
specialized services such as electrical work, painting, plumbing, and
demolition. It includes management of construction projects.
14. Data base and other information services – Business and
economic data base services, including business news, stock
quotation, and financial information services; medical, legal,
technical, demographic, bibliographic, and similar data base
services; general news services, such as those purchased from
a news syndicate; direct non-bulk subscriptions (including
online) to newspapers and periodicals; and other information
services, including reservation systems and credit reporting
and authorization systems. For airline reservation systems,
include booking fees from foreign carriers for the use of your
reservation system, whether accessed directly or by a U.S. or
foreign travel agent. Include downloaded content that is not software
or audio or visual services.
15. Educational and training services – Educational or training
services provided or acquired on a contract or fee basis.
Includes tuition and fees charged when the institutions provide
the educational service through distance learning technologies
using the Internet. Includes training provided via USAID contracts.
Report amounts received from USAID as receipts from unaffiliated
foreign persons, and any foreign expenses associated with such
contracts as payments to foreign persons.
Excludes tuition and fees charged to U.S. and foreign persons by
educational institutions when the students travel to the institution for
study. Also excludes training provided by a manufacturer in
connection with the sale of a good (report under transaction
code 19).
16. Engineering, architectural, and surveying services –
Includes architectural, engineering and land-surveying services.
Includes those engineering services performed in conjunction
with construction and mining services projects. Includes
services purchased in connection with proposed projects (e.g.,
feasibility studies) as well as projects that are actually being
carried out. Industrial engineering services, such as product
design services, should be reported under transaction code 18.
17. Financial services (purchases only) – This service is to be
reported by companies that are not a financial services provider.
the definition of financial services providers used for this survey is
identical in coverage to Sector 52 – Finance and Insurance, and
holding companies from Sector 55 of the North American Industry
Classification System United States, 2007.
Include payment of credit-related fees, fees on securities
transactions, and fees for other financial services.
Credit-related fees include fees for establishing, maintaining, or
arranging credits, letters of credit, bankers acceptances,
mortgages, factoring services, loan guarantees, etc., that are
commonly provided by foreign banking establishments. Include
fees paid directly and fees that are withheld or deducted from
your proceeds by the foreign person. For example, for factoring
services, the fee may be calculated as the difference between the
proceeds you received from the sale of your receivables and the
face amount of the receivables sold; for arranging credits, letters
of credit, etc., it may be calculated as the difference between the
proceeds you received from the loan, letter of credit, etc. (after
the deduction of the fee) and your liability to the foreign lending
establishment. Report credit-related fees in the accounting period
in which they are incurred, whether or not expensed in that
accounting period. Exclude interest on your obligations, because
interest is a payment for the use of the loan proceeds and is not a
fee for the establishment, maintenance, or arrangement of credit.
Fees on securities transactions include commissions and other
fees for securities transactions (including transactions in
derivatives) or futures trading, such as brokerage, underwriting,
private placements, etc. Fees for such services would commonly
be paid to foreign investment banks and securities brokers or
dealers. Include fees that can be calculated from transactions
records or other documentation issued by the investment bank
or security broker or dealer. Omit, rather than attempt to
estimate, these fees if they cannot be calculated from such
documentation. (For example, a dealer’s markup on bond
purchases and sales cannot be directly estimated from
transactions records issued by a securities dealer.)
Fees for other financial services include fees for asset/liability
management, debt renegotiation, and other financial services.
Exclude leasing (operational leasing services are included in
transaction code 24), and real estate management services
(management, consulting, and public relations services are
included in transaction code 21).
18. Industrial engineering services – Engineering services
related to the design of movable products, including product
design services. Excludes engineering and architectural services
that relate to actual or proposed construction services projects
(reportable under transaction code 16). Excludes computer
systems engineering (reportable under transaction code 12).
Includes, however, services performed with the assistance of
computers, such as computer-assisted design work.
19. Industrial-type maintenance, installation, alteration, and
training services – Maintenance services primarily to
machinery and equipment. May also include small maintenance
work on buildings, structures, dams, highways, etc., but only to
the extent that the work is not reported under transaction code
13. Includes such services as the periodic overhaul of turbines,
the extinguishment of natural gas well fires, and refinery
maintenance. Excludes computer maintenance (report under
transaction code 12). Installation and training services include
only installation, startup, and training services provided by a
manufacturer in connection with the sale of a good. Do not
include such services where the cost is included in the price of
the goods and not separately billed, or is declared as a part of
the price of the goods on the import or export declaration filed
with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection; however,
services provided at a price over and above that entered on the
declaration should be included. These services would be
reported elsewhere if not received in connection with the
purchase of goods. For example, installation of machinery and
equipment is normally considered a construction activity, and
training personnel in the use of new machinery would
ordinarily be reported as an educational or training service.
20. Legal services – Legal advice or other legal services.
21. Management, consulting, and public relations services
(including allocated expenses) – Management services;
consulting services; public relations services; market research, public
opinion polling services and amounts received by a parent company
from its affiliates for general overhead and stewardship. Excludes
consulting engineering services related to actual or proposed
construction projects (report under transaction number 16); computer
consulting (report under transaction number 12); and public relations
services that are an integral part of an advertising campaign
(report under transaction code 10). Also excludes transactions
between parent companies and affiliates that are identifiable as
arising from the provision of advertising, accounting, legal,
R&D, etc. services, even if these amounts represent
reimbursements of sums paid to third parties. That is,
transactions between parent companies and affiliates should
not be reported in management services if they can instead be
reported in another services category.
22. Merchanting services (Receipts only) – Sales of
merchanting services are equal to the difference between
your cost and the resale price of goods (such as crude oil,
grain, and other commodities) that are both purchased and
resold abroad; that is, the goods are neither imported to, nor
exported from, the United States and they do not undergo
significant processing during the time between when they are
purchased and resold. Without regard to whether you initially
purchased the goods from an affiliated or unaffiliated foreign
person, report data for those transactions according to the
company’s relationship with the foreign entity (foreign affiliate,
foreign parent(s) and foreign affiliates of foreign parent(s)
group(s), or unaffiliated foreign person) to which the goods
were resold. Only the all-countries total (line 33 of Schedule A)
is required to be reported for this service, even if total sales
exceed $2 million. The data that are voluntarily reported by
individual foreign country should be reported according to the
individual foreign countries to which the goods were resold
(and not the foreign countries from which the goods were
purchased).
Note: If you report transactions related to merchanting on
Schedule A then you are required to complete Schedule F
of the survey.
23. Mining services – Includes drilling wells for oil or gas field
operations; exploration, including prospecting and taking ore
samples; grading and building foundations at well locations;
well surveying; and making geological observations. Includes
services purchased in connection with proposed projects (e.g.
feasibility studies) as well as projects that are actually being
carried out. Exclude leasing of oil platforms and rigs (report under
transaction code 24).
24. Operational leasing – Rentals for computer and data
processing equipment; transportation equipment (such as ships,
aircraft, railway cars, containers, rigs automotive fleets, etc.)
without crew or operators (If crew or operators are provided,
the fee is considered to be for transportation services which may
be reportable on BEA forms BE-9, BE-30, or BE-37. Go to
www.bea.gov/bea/surveys/iussurv.htm to determine which forms
cover your particular transportation services.); and rentals of
other machinery and equipment. Include fees from rentals of
furniture, coin-operated machines, construction equipment
(without operators) and electronic equipment except computers.
This category excludes rentals under leases that have been
capitalized (capital leases), and rentals of any items other than
machinery and equipment. (For example, it excludes rentals of
office buildings and other real estate, film rentals, leases of natural
resources, and employee leasing.)
25. Trade-related services, other than merchanting services –
Trade-related services cover commissions on goods and service
transactions payable to merchants, commodity brokers, dealers,
auctioneers, and commission agents. For example, these services
include the auctioneer’s fees (including online), transactions fees for
business to business (B2B) exchanges, or agent’s commissions on
sales of ships, aircraft, and other goods. If the trader owns the goods
being sold, the trader’s margin is generally included indistinguishably
in the price of the goods. However, any margins not included in the
price of the goods are included in trade-related services. Exclude
brokerage on financial instruments, which are reportable on BEA’s
BE-185, Survey of Financial Services Transactions between U.S.
Financial Services Providers and Foreign Persons. Also exclude
transport-related charges, such as agency commissions, which are
included on BEA’s surveys of transportation services. Marketing
services should be reported under transaction code 10.
26. Performing arts, sports, and other live performances,
presentations, and events – Fees to performers, athletes,
directors, and producers involved with, concerts, theatrical and
musical productions, sporting events, and similar events for
performing arts, sports, etc. To be reported by (a) U.S. management
companies, booking agents, promoters, and presenters who received
funds from or paid funds to foreign persons, for performances and
events, and (b) U.S. performers who received funds directly from a
foreign person rather than through a U.S. management company or
similar entity. (As used here “performers” means entertainers, sports
teams, orchestras, dance companies, lecturers, and similar persons
or performing groups.) Do not include fees paid to employees of the
entity making payments, such as foreign athletes who play for U.S.
resident sports teams.
Note for services numbered 27 and 28: When you report either transaction codes number 27 or 28, also report the other service. If there are transactions in one of these services but not in the other, label a column in Schedule B with the number for the other service and enter "NA" on line 33.
27. Primary insurance premiums (purchases only) –
Premiums (net of cancellations) paid to foreign insurance
carriers. A U.S. reporter that is an insurance company
should not report direct transactions with a foreign insurance
company. However, a U.S. reporter that is not an insurance
company that purchased insurance from an affiliated foreign
insurance company (for example, a captive insurance
affiliate) should report those purchases here. (See note
above.)
28. Losses recovered on primary insurance (purchases only) –
Losses recovered on insurance purchased from foreign
insurance carriers. A U.S. reporter that is an insurance
company should not report losses with a foreign insurance
company. However, a U.S. reporter that is not an insurance
company that purchased insurance from an affiliated foreign
insurance company (for example, a captive insurance affiliate)
should report losses here (See note above transaction code 43.)
29. Research and development services – Research and development
is creative work aimed at discovering new knowledge or developing
new or significantly improved goods and services. Commercial and
noncommercial research and product development services.
Includes fees associated with the development of intellectual
property protected by patents, trademarks, or copyrights and fees for
the development of general use software, such as smart phone and
tablet PC applications. Includes fees for the conduct of experiments
or performances of research and development activities aboard
spacecraft. Excludes medical and dental laboratory services.
Examples of research and development services are medial research
(pharmacology, medical devices, and diagnostic research);
computers and information systems; biological research, including
biotechnology; nanotechnology; environmental technology; imaging
technology; and energy technology.
30. Telecommunications services – Telecommunications services
encompass the broadcast or transmission of sound, images, data, or
other information by telephone, telex, telegram, radio, and television
cable transmission, radio and television satellite electronic mail,
facsimile, and so forth, including business network services,
teleconferencing, and support services. They do not include the
value of the information transported. Also included are mobile
telecommunications services, Internet backbone services, and online
access services, including provision of access to the Internet.
Excluded are installation services for telephone network equipment
(report under transaction code 13) and database services (report
under transaction code 14). Includes services of the following types
(to be reported in aggregate, rather than as five separate types of
services):
Message telephone services, telex, telegram, and other
jointly provided basic services – On Schedule A, report
receipts from foreign persons (communications companies and
postal, telephone, and telegraph agencies) for your share of
revenues for transmitting messages originating abroad to U.S.
destinations. On Schedule B, report payouts to foreign persons
(communications companies and PTT’s) for their share of
revenues for transmitting messages originating in the United
States to foreign destinations. For messages originating in
foreign countries and routed through the United States (for
example, from Caribbean countries via the United States to
Western Europe), report receipts from the foreign person
originating the message and payouts to the country of
destination. Also report receipts for transmitting messages
between foreign points when not offered in connection with
enhanced services, call-back services, and other regulated
services of the type reportable to the FCC on Report 43.61.
Private leased channel services – On Schedule A, report
receipts from foreign persons for circuits and channels
terminating in the United States and for circuits and channels
between foreign points. On Schedule B, report payouts to
foreign persons (communications companies and PTT’s) for
leased channels and circuits terminating in foreign countries.
Value-added (enhanced) services – Telecommunications
services that add value or function above and beyond the
telecommunications transport services that deliver the
value-added services to end users. They can include (a)
electronic mail, voice mail, code and protocol processing, texting,
and management and operation of data networks; (b) facsimile
services and video-conferencing; (c) Internet connections (online
access service including Internet backbone, router services and
broadband access services); (d) satellite broadcasting business
communication and paging services provided by satellite
connections; (e) telephony, interactive voice response, virtual
private networking, remote access service, and voice over IP;
and (f) other value-added (enhanced) services.
Support services – Services related to the maintenance and
repair of telecommunications equipment and ground station
services. Do not include installation services for telephone network
equipment (included in transaction code 13).
Reciprocal exchanges – Include the value of reciprocal
exchanges; i.e., transactions involving barter. On Schedule A,
value your sales to the foreign participant in the reciprocal
exchange at market rates, not at the actual cost of performing
the services. On Schedule B, value your purchases from the
foreign participant at the same amounts as the sales reported
on Schedule A.
31. Agricultural services – Soil preparation services, crop
services, veterinary and other animal services, employment related
to farm labor, and landscape and horticultural services.
32. Contract manufacturing services (Report on Schedule D only) –
Only the fee charged by the processor (manufacturer) is included in
this item. Contract manufacturing services on materials and
components owned by others and covers processing, assembly,
labeling, packing, and so forth undertaken by businesses
that do not own the goods concerned. The manufacturing is
undertaken by a business that does not own the goods and that is
paid a fee by the owner of the goods. The ownership of the goods
does not change. Examples of processes that are undertaken under
arrangements for manufacturing services include oil refining,
liquefaction of natural gas, assembly of clothing, electronics and
other goods, and labeling and packing (excluding those incidental to
transport).
33. Disbursements to fund production costs of motion
pictures – Foreign production costs of U.S. motion picture
companies, and U.S. production costs of foreign motion picture
companies.
34. Disbursements to fund news-gathering costs and production
costs of program material other than news and motion pictures
- Where a set of related expenditures was made in several
countries, but your recordkeeping does not permit a precise
allocation of expenses among individual countries, estimates
are acceptable. If no basis for such estimates exists, then you may
record the expenditures against the country in which the activities
were centered or headquartered. For example, a news
correspondent may conduct news-gathering activities in several
countries. Although it would be preferable to report news-gathering
expenses in each of the several countries, all of the expenses may, if
necessary, be recorded against the country where the foreign news
bureau is headquartered, or where the correspondent had the largest
outlays.
Disbursements to fund news-gathering costs of
broadcasters – U.S. broadcasters’ outlays to fund operations of
their foreign news bureaus and for support of correspondents in
foreign countries, and foreign broadcasters’ outlays to fund
operations of their U.S. news bureaus and for support of
correspondents in the United States.
Disbursements to fund news-gathering costs of print
media – Outlays by U.S. newspapers, news syndicates, and
news magazines for the operation of their foreign news bureaus,
and outlays by foreign newspapers, news syndicates, and news
magazines for the operation of their U.S. news bureaus.
Disbursements to fund production costs of broadcast
program material other than news – Foreign production
costs of U.S. companies engaged in the production of broadcast
material other than news, and U.S. production costs of foreign
companies engaged in the production of broadcast material
other than news. Includes disbursements for broadcasting
professional or amateur sporting events, and the disbursements
for production of the events themselves.
35. Waste treatment and depollution services – Treatment of
radioactive and other waste, stripping of contaminated soil,
cleaning up of pollution including spills, restoration of mining
sites, and de-contamination and sanitation services. Includes all
other services that relate to the cleaning or restoring of the
environment. Includes environmental services, such as production of
carbon offsets or carbon sequestration.
36. Other selected services – When reporting data under this
transaction code number, also identify the specific type of
transaction from the list below accounting for the largest share
of the reported total. This category does not include travel,
transportation, insurance, financial services, salaries, foreign taxes,
and expenditures by students and medical patients who are studying
or seeking treatment in a country different from their country of
residence. This category includes but is not limited to the following
types of services:
Disbursements to maintain government tourism and
business promotion offices – Funding to maintain State
tourism and business promotion offices located abroad, and
funding to maintain foreign government sponsored tourism and
business promotion offices located in the United States.
Disbursements for sales promotion and representation –
Funding to maintain sales promotion and representative offices.
Sales promotion offices typically have few assets other than office
furniture; to the extent that their employees are compensated by
commissions, the commissions arise only from sales or business
that the employees generate for their U.S. or foreign parents; they
do not produce revenue, other than funds from their parents to
cover their expenses; and they are engaged only in sales
promotion, representational, and public-relations-type activities.
Report the funds to maintain this type of office as a transaction
with an unaffiliated entity as opposed to a transaction with an
affiliated foreign person.
Disbursements to participate in foreign trade shows
(outlays only) – Foreign expenses incurred by U.S. persons
participating in foreign trade shows.
Employment agencies and temporary help supply services –
Employment services and provision of temporary help and
personnel to perform services on a contract or fee basis. Where
workers are carried on the payroll of the agency, includes
amounts received or paid for the compensation of workers as
well as agency fees. Employment services related to farm labor
should be reported under transaction code 31, agricultural services.
Mailing, reproduction, and commercial art – Direct mail
advertising services; mailing services, such as re-mailing services
in connection with direct mail advertising; commercial
photography, art, and graphic services; address list compilation;
and stenographic services.
Medical services – Includes remote diagnostic services, and remote
monitoring of surgical procedures provided to patients, practitioners,
and medical institutions (telemedicine) and services of medical
laboratories that do not deal directly with patients.
Other private services – Report transactions in the following
types of services: Language translation services, salvage services,
security services, collection services, satellite photography and
remote sensing/satellite imagery services, space transport
(includes satellite launches, transport of goods and people for
scientific experiments, and space passenger transport), and
transcription services. Include services not elsewhere classified,
except travel, transportation, insurance, financial services, and
expenditures by students and medical patients who are studying
or seeking treatment in a country different from their country of
residence. See 1.B. for a definition of services covered by the
BE-120 survey that -- when considered in connection with service
categories 1 through 35 above -- also helps to describe what
transactions are reportable in this category.
VI. BE-120 SUPPLEMENT A This checklist is provided with the BE-120 survey for the internal use and convenience of reporters only and is not to be returned to BEA.
The purpose of this checklist is to facilitate the determination of whether or not the "parts" or units of a given U.S. company had any of the various services transactions covered by the survey, either sales (receipts) or purchases (payments), with foreign persons during the respondent’s fiscal year. (The term "persons" includes business enterprises, governments, individuals, and other organizations and entities.)
For companies with diverse operations, this checklist should be directed to persons in the various parts of the company who are knowledgeable about the parts’ sales and purchasing activities and who can say, in their judgment, with a reasonable degree of certainty without conducting a records search, whether or not a part engaged in covered transactions. Because companies organize their operations and accounting systems in different ways, these parts of a company might variously be referred to as profit centers, business units, divisions, subsidiaries, plant sites, establishments, operating centers, etc., or some combination thereof. All parts of the domestic company must be covered, although all need not be given the checklist, since some might already be known by headquarters to have, or not have, reportable transactions. |
Definitions of the various types of transactions are on the next two pages of this checklist.
1. Both sales and purchases of services should relate to the company’s 2011 fiscal year.
2. Transactions by the U.S. operation ONLY are covered. Transactions by foreign branches or subsidiaries (foreign affiliates) of the U.S. company are NOT covered. NOR are transactions by a foreign parent company, unless they are with the U.S. reporter.
3. In reporting purchases, include items meeting the above criteria, without regard to whether they were charged as an expense on the Income statement, capitalized, or charged to inventories.
4. "Foreign" means that which is situated outside the United States and its territories and possessions.
5. Reportable transactions are determined by the above criteria, without regard to WHERE the services were performed. For example, services performed abroad by a respondent are covered if the respondent’s U.S. operations performed the services instead of a foreign affiliate. Similarly, purchases of services from unaffiliated foreign persons are includable without regard to WHERE such services were performed.
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TRANSACTIONS COVERED
A. Transactions in Intangible Assets
1. Rights related to industrial processes and products –
Include license fees, royalties, and other fees received or paid for
the, sale or purchase, right to use, or right to reproduce or distribute
intellectual property, including patents, trade secrets, and other
proprietary rights, that are used in connection with, or related to, the
production of goods. (For example, include "maintenance" fees paid
to foreign governments for the continuation of patent rights.) If the
charge for the process, design, etc., is subsumed in a contract for
technical or professional services, the receipt or payment generally
should be reported under the proper transaction number for that type
of service..
2. Rights related to books, music, etc. –
Include royalties and other fees received or paid for the rights to
perform, broadcast, reproduce, and sell as books, CD’s,
digital music, etc., or otherwise use copyrighted material and
other intellectual property. Exclude fees for the right to display,
reproduce, or distribute pre-recorded television tape or motion
picture film, such charges should be reported under transaction
code 4.
3. Rights related to trademarks, etc. – Include receipts and
payments for the rights to sell products under a particular trademark,
brand name, or signature. Include the initial fee and annual fees for
the domain name registration for the Internet and the receipt and
payment from the sale of a previously registered name. Include
fees for sponsorship of other events if the fee is for the right to
use the logo or trademark of the payee.
4. Rights related to performances and events pre-recorded on
motion picture film and TV tape (include digital recordings) –
Include royalties, rentals, license fees, and other funds received or
paid, including those from outright sales and purchases, for the
rights to display, reproduce, or distribute material pre-recorded on
motion picture film or television tape (include digital recordings and
video streaming). Include payments and receipts for all uses,
including theatrical, cable, broadcast television, and non-theatrical.
5. Rights related to broadcasting and recording of live
performances and events – Include receipts and payments for
the rights to record and/or broadcast "live" artistic performances,
sports events, and other live performances or events. Payments
(or receipts) for the acquisition (or sale) of rights to broadcast a
major live performance or event, such as the Olympics, often
extend over several years prior to the event.
6. Rights related to general use computer software – Include
receipts and payments for rights to distribute general use
software, and rights to reproduce or use general use computer
software that was electronically transmitted or made from a
master copy. This item includes licensing fees for reproducing
copies of general use software for local area network computer
systems, and excludes that value of prepackaged general use
software not intended for use on a server in a LAN environment
that was physically shipped to or from the United States and
included in merchandise trade statistics.
7. Business format franchising fees – Fees received and paid by
the U.S. reporter under business format franchising agreements
with foreign persons.
8. Other intangible assets – Include receipts and payments
involving intangible assets not classified in one of the preceding
categories. Include receipts or payments by communications
carriers to secure capacity by indefeasible right of users (IRU’s).
For entries in this column, please specify in the "comments"
section the type of intangible right involved.
B. Transactions in Selected Services
9. Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services – Excludes
data processing and tabulation services.
10. Advertising services – Preparation of advertising and placement
of such advertising in media, including marketing expenses and
charges for media space and time. Include advertising banners on
web pages.
11. Auxiliary insurance services – Agent’s commissions,
insurance brokering and agency services, insurance consulting
services, evaluation and adjustment services, actuarial services,
salvage administration services, and regulatory and monitoring
services on indemnities and recovery services.
12. Computer and data processing services – Data entry
processing (both batch and remote), and tabulation; computer
systems analysis, design, and engineering; custom software
and programming services (including web design); integrated
hardware/software systems, and other computer services
(timesharing, maintenance, web site management, and repair).
13. Construction services – Creation, renovation, repair or extension
of buildings, land improvements, and engineering construction of
roads, bridges, dams, etc. It also includes related installation and
assembly work. It includes site preparation and general
construction as well as specialized services such as electrical work,
painting, plumbing, and demolition. It includes management of
construction projects.
14. Data base and other information services – Business and
economic data base services, including business news, stock
quotation, and financial information services; medical, legal,
technical, demographic, bibliographic, and similar data base
services.
15. Educational and training services – Educational or training
services provided or acquired on a contract or fee basis.
Excludes tuition and fees charged to individual students, as well
as training done by a manufacturer in connection with the sale
of a good.
16. Engineering, architectural, and surveying services – Includes
architectural, engineering and land-surveying services. Includes
those engineering services performed in conjunction with
construction and mining services projects. Includes services
purchased in connection with proposed projects (e.g., feasibility
studies) as well as projects that are actually being carried out.
17. Financial services (purchases only) – Include payments of
credit-related fees, fees on securities transactions, and fees for
other financial services by non-financial services companies
only.
18. Industrial engineering services – Engineering services
related to the design of movable products, including product
design services.
19. Industrial-type maintenance, installation, alteration, and
training services – Maintenance services primarily to
machinery and equipment. Includes small maintenance work on
buildings, structures, dams, highways, etc. Includes such
services as the periodic overhaul of turbines, the
extinguishment of natural gas well fires, and refinery
maintenance.
20. Legal services – Legal advice or other legal services.
21. Management, consulting, and public relations services
(including allocated expenses) – Management services,
consulting services, public relations services; and amounts
received by a parent company from its affiliates for general
overhead and stewardship. Excludes consulting engineering
services related to actual or proposed construction projects
(report under transaction number 16); computer consulting
(report under transaction number 12); and public relations
services that are an integral part of an advertising campaign
(report under transaction code 10). Also excludes transactions
between parent companies and affiliates that are identifiable as
B. Transactions in Selected Services – Continued
arising from the provision of advertising, accounting, legal,
R&D, etc. services, even if these amounts represent
reimbursements of sums paid to third parties. That is, transactions
between parent companies and affiliates should not be
reported in management services if they can instead be
reported in another services category.
22. Merchanting services (receipts only) – Sales of merchanting
services are equal to the difference between your cost and the
resale price of goods (such as crude oil, grain, and other
commodities) that are both purchased and resold abroad; that
is, the goods are neither imported to, nor exported from, the
United States and they do not undergo significant processing
during the time between when they are purchased and resold.
23. Mining services – Includes drilling wells for oil or gas field
operations, exploration; including prospecting and taking ore
samples; grading and building foundations at well locations; well
surveying; and making geological observations. Includes services
purchased in connection with proposed projects (e.g. feasibility
studies) as well as projects that are actually being carried out.
24. Operational leasing – Rentals for computer and data
processing equipment, transportation equipment (such as ships,
aircraft, railway cars, containers, rigs automotive fleets, etc.)
without crew or operators and rentals of other machinery and
equipment.
25. Other trade-related services – Trade-related services cover
commissions on goods and service transactions payable to
merchants, commodity brokers, dealers, auctioneers, and
commission agents.
26. Performing arts, sports, and other live performances,
presentations, and events – Fees to performers, athletes,
directors, and producers involved with, concerts, theatrical and
musical productions, sporting events, and similar events for
performing arts, sports, etc. To be reported by (a) U.S.
management companies, booking agents, promoters, and
presenters who received funds from or paid funds to foreign
persons, for performances and events, and (b) U.S. performers
who received funds directly from a foreign person rather than
through a U.S. management company or similar entity.
Note for services numbered 27 and 28: When you report either
service number 27 or 28 also report the other service. If there are
transactions in one of these services but not in the other, label a
column in Schedule B with the number for the other service and enter
"NA" in line 1 or 33.
27. Primary insurance premiums (purchases only) – Premiums
(net of cancellations) paid to foreign insurance carriers. (See
note above.)
28. Losses recovered on primary insurance (purchases only) –
Losses recovered on insurance purchased from foreign
insurance carriers. (See note above service number 27.)
29. Research and development services – Commercial and
noncommercial research and product development services.
Includes fees associated with the development of intellectual
property protected by patents, trademarks, or copyrights and fees
for the development of general use software.
.
30. Telecommunications services – Telecommunications services
encompass the broadcast or transmission of sound, images, data,
or other information by telephone, telex, telegram, radio, and
television cable transmission, radio and television satellite
electronic mail, facsimile, and so forth, including business network
services, teleconferencing, and support services. They do not
include the value of the information transported. Also included are
mobile telecommunications services, Internet backbone services,
and online access services, including provision of access to the
Internet.
31. Agricultural services – Soil preparation services, crop
services, veterinary and other animal services, farm labor and
management services, and landscape and horticultural services.
32. Contract manufacturing services – Contract manufacturing
services on materials and components owned by others and
covers processing, assembly, labeling, packing, and so forth
undertaken by businesses that do not own the goods concerned.
The manufacturing is undertaken by a business that does not own
the goods and that is paid a fee by the owner of the goods. The
ownership of the goods does not change. Examples of processes
that are undertaken under arrangements for manufacturing
services include oil refining, liquefaction of natural gas, assembly
of clothing, electronics and other goods, and labeling and packing
(excluding those incidental to transport).
33. Disbursements to fund production costs of motion pictures –
Disbursements or outlays to fund production costs of motion picture
companies and companies engaged in the production of broadcast
material other than news.
34. Disbursements to fund news-gathering costs and production
costs of program material other than news – Disbursements or
outlays to fund news-gathering costs of broadcasters and the print
media; and the production of broadcast program material other
than news.
35. Waste treatment and depollution services – Treatment of
radioactive and other waste, stripping of contaminated soil,
cleaning up of pollution including spills, restoration of mining
sites, and de-contamination and sanitation services. Includes all
other services that relate to the cleaning or restoring of the
environment.
36. Other selected services – This category does not include
travel, transportation, insurance, financial services, and
expenditures by students and medical patients who are
studying or seeking treatment in a country different from their
country of residence. This category includes but is not limited
to the following types of services:
Other miscellaneous disbursements – Disbursements or outlays
To fund costs of maintaining tourism, business promotion, and
representative offices, and for participating in foreign trade shows.
Employment agencies and temporary help supply
services – Employment services and provision of temporary
help and personnel to perform services on a contract or fee
basis. Where workers are carried on the payroll of the agency,
includes amounts received or paid for the compensation of
workers as well as agency fees.
Mailing, reproduction, and commercial art – Direct mail
advertising services; mailing services, such as re-mailing
services in connection with direct mail advertising, commercial
photography, art, and graphic services; address list compilation;
and stenographic services.
Medical services – Includes remote diagnostic services, and
remote monitoring of surgical procedures provided to patients,
practitioners, and medical institutions (telemedicine) and services
of medical laboratories that do not deal directly with patients.
Other private services – Report transactions in the following
types of services: Language translation services, salvage
services, security services, collection services, satellite
photography and remote sensing/satellite imagery services,
space transport (includes satellite launches, transport of goods
and people for scientific experiments, and space passenger
transport), and transcription services. Include services not
elsewhere classified, except travel, transportation, insurance,
financial services, and expenditures by students and medical
patients who are studying or seeking treatment in a country
different from their country of residence.
SUMMARY OF INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATIONS
AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY,
FISHING, AND HUNTING
1110 Crop production
1120 Animal production
1130 Forestry and logging
1140 Fishing, hunting, and trapping
1150 Support activities for agriculture
and forestry
MINING, QUARRYING, AND OIL AND GAS EXTRACTION
2111 Oil and gas extraction
2121 Coal
2123 Nonmetallic minerals
2124 Iron ores
2125 Gold and silver ores
2126 Copper, nickel, lead, and zinc ores
2127 Other metal ores
2132 Support activities for oil and gas
operations
2133 Support activities for mining,
except for oil and gas operations
UTILITIES
2211 Electric power generation,
transmission, and distribution
2212 Natural gas distribution
2213 Water, sewage, and other systems
CONSTRUCTION
2360 Construction of buildings
2370 Heavy and civil engineering
construction
2380 Specialty trade contractors
MANUFACTURING
3111 Animal foods
3112 Grain and oilseed milling
3113 Sugar and confectionery products
3114 Fruit and vegetable preserving
and specialty foods
3115 Dairy products
3116 Meat products
3117 Seafood product preparation and
packaging
3118 Bakeries and tortillas
3119 Other food products
3121 Beverages
3122 Tobacco
3130 Textile mills
3140 Textile product mills
3150 Apparel
3160 Leather and allied products
3210 Wood products
3221 Pulp, paper, and paperboard mills
3222 Converted paper products
3231 Printing and related support
activities
3242 Integrated petroleum refining and
extraction
3243 Petroleum refining without
extraction
3244 Asphalt and other petroleum and
coal products
3251 Basic chemicals
3252 Resins, synthetic rubbers, and
artificial and synthetic fibers
and filaments
3253 Pesticides, fertilizers, and other
agricultural chemicals
3254 Pharmaceuticals and medicines
3255 Paints, coatings, and adhesives
3256 Soap, cleaning compounds, and
toilet preparations
3259 Other chemical products and
preparations
3261 Plastics products
3262 Rubber products
3271 Clay products and refractories
3272 Glass and glass products
3273 Cement and concrete products
3274 Lime and gypsum products
3279 Other nonmetallic mineral
products
3311 Iron and steel mills and
ferroalloys
3312 Steel products from purchased
steel
3313 Alumina and aluminum
production and processing
3314 Nonferrous metal (except
aluminum) production and
processing
3315 Foundries
3321 Forging and stamping
3322 Cutlery and handtools
3323 Architectural and structural metals
3324 Boilers, tanks, and shipping
containers
3325 Hardware
3326 Spring and wire products
3327 Machine shops; turned products;
and screws, nuts, and bolts
3328 Coating, engraving, heat treating,
and allied activities
3329 Other fabricated metal products
3331 Agriculture, construction, and
mining machinery
3332 Industrial machinery
3333 Commercial and service industry
machinery
3334 Ventilation, heating, air conditioning,
and commercial
refrigeration equipment
3335 Metalworking machinery
3336 Engines, turbines, and power
transmission equipment
3339 Other general purpose machinery
3341 Computer and peripheral
equipment
3342 Communications equipment
3343 Audio and video equipment
3344 Semiconductors and other
electronic components
3345 Navigational, measuring,
electromedical, and control
instruments
3346 Manufacturing and reproducing
magnetic and optical media
3351 Electric lighting equipment
3352 Household appliances
3353 Electrical equipment
3359 Other electrical equipment and
components
3361 Motor vehicles
3362 Motor vehicle bodies and trailers
3363 Motor vehicle parts
3364 Aerospace products and parts
3365 Railroad rolling stock
3366 Ship and boat building
3369 Other transportation equipment
3370 Furniture and related products
3391 Medical equipment and supplies
3399 Other miscellaneous
Manufacturing
WHOLESALE TRADE
MERCHANT WHOLESALERS, DURABLE
GOODS
4231 Motor vehicles and motor vehicle
parts and supplies merchant
wholesalers
4232 Furniture and home furnishing
merchant wholesalers
4233 Lumber and other construction
materials merchant wholesalers
4234 Professional and commercial
equipment and supplies
merchant wholesalers
4235 Metal and mineral (except
petroleum) merchant
wholesalers
4236 Electrical and electronic goods
merchant wholesalers
4237 Hardware, and plumbing and
heating equipment and supplies
merchant wholesalers
4238 Machinery, equipment, and
supplies merchant wholesalers
4239 Miscellaneous durable goods
merchant wholesalers
MERCHANT WHOLESALERS
NONDURABLE GOODS
4241 Paper and paper product
merchant wholesalers
4242 Drugs and druggists’ sundries
merchant wholesalers
4243 Apparel, piece goods, and notions
merchant wholesalers
4244 Grocery and related product
merchant wholesalers
4245 Farm product raw material
merchant wholesalers
4246 Chemical and allied products
merchant wholesalers
4247 Petroleum and petroleum
products merchant wholesalers
4248 Beer, wine, and distilled alcoholic
beverage merchant wholesalers
4249 Miscellaneous nondurable goods
merchant wholesalers
ELECTRONIC MARKETS AND AGENTS
AND BROKERS
4251 Wholesale electronic markets and
agents and brokers
RETAIL TRADE
4410 Motor vehicle and parts dealers
4420 Furniture and home furnishings
stores
4431 Electronics and appliance stores
4440 Building material and garden
equipment and supplies dealers
4450 Food and beverage stores
4461 Health and personal care stores
4471 Gasoline stations
4480 Clothing and clothing accessories
stores
4510 Sporting goods, hobby, book, and
music stores
4520 General merchandise stores
4530 Miscellaneous store retailers
4540 Nonstore retailers
TRANSPORTATION AND
WAREHOUSING
4810 Air transportation
4821 Rail transportation
4833 Petroleum tanker operations
4839 Other water transportation
4840 Truck transportation
4850 Transit and ground passenger
transportation
4863 Pipeline transportation of crude
oil, refined petroleum products,
and natural gas
4868 Other pipeline transportation
4870 Scenic and sightseeing
transportation
4880 Support activities for
transportation
4920 Couriers and messengers
4932 Petroleum storage for hire
4939 Other warehousing and storage
INFORMATION
5111 Newspaper, periodical, book, and
directory publishers
5112 Software publishers
5121 Motion picture and video
industries
5122 Sound recording industries
5151 Radio and television broadcasting
5152 Cable and other subscription
programming
5171 Wired telecommunications
carriers
5172 Wireless telecommunications
carriers (except satellite)
5174 Satellite telecommunications
5179 Other telecommunications
5182 Data processing, hosting, and
related services
5191 Other information services
FINANCE AND INSURANCE
5221 Depository credit intermediation
(Banking)
5223 Activities related to credit
intermediation
5224 Nondepository credit
intermediation
5229 Nondepository branches and
agencies
5231 Securities and commodity
contracts intermediation and
brokerage
5238 Other financial investment
activities and exchanges
5242 Agencies, brokerages, and other
insurance related activities
5243 Insurance carriers, except life
insurance carriers
5249 Life insurance carriers
5252 Funds, trusts, and other financial
Vehicles
REAL ESTATE AND RENTAL AND
LEASING
5310 Real estate
5321 Automotive equipment rental and
leasing
5329 Other rental and leasing services
5331 Lessors of nonfinancial intangible
assets (except copyrighted
works)
PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND
TECHNICAL SERVICES
5411 Legal services
5412 Accounting, tax preparation,
bookkeeping, and payroll
services
5413 Architectural, engineering, and
related services
5414 Specialized design services
5415 Computer systems design and
related services
5416 Management, scientific, and
technical consulting services
5417 Scientific research and
development services
5418 Advertising and related services
5419 Other professional, scientific, and
technical services
MANAGEMENT OF COMPANIES
AND ENTERPRISES
5512 Holding companies, except bank
holding companies
5513 Corporate, subsidiary, and
regional management offices
ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT
AND WASTE MANAGEMENT AND
REMEDIATION SERVICES
5611 Office administrative services
5612 Facilities support services
5613 Employment services
5614 Business support services
5615 Travel arrangement and
reservation services
5616 Investigation and security services
5617 Services to buildings and
dwellings
5619 Other support services
5620 Waste management and
remediation services
EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
6110 Educational services
HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL
ASSISTANCE
6210 Ambulatory health care services
6220 Hospitals
6230 Nursing and residential care
facilities
6240 Social assistance services
ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT, AND
RECREATION
7110 Performing arts, spectator sports,
and related industries
7121 Museums, historical sites, and
similar institutions
7130 Amusement, gambling, and
recreation industries
ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD
SERVICES
7210 Accommodation
7220 Food services and drinking places
OTHER SERVICES
8110 Repair and maintenance
8120 Personal and laundry services
8130 Religious, grantmaking, civic,
professional, and similar
organizations
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
9200 Public administration
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File Title | OMB No |
Author | U.S. Department of Commerce |
Last Modified By | Emond, Christopher |
File Modified | 2011-07-28 |
File Created | 2011-07-26 |