BEA Survey Questions

Grants to perform services abroad must be reported in the year that they are accrued if they are from 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. However, do not report services provided to the U.S. Department of Defense or any of its agencies, such as the Army Corp of Engineers.

Yes. Other selected services include all services transactions that are not separately listed and are not specifically excluded. This category excludes sales of 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; and transportation or travel-related services provided to individual travelers (including hotel accommodation and restaurant meals). Other selected services include (but are not limited to) funding (U.S.

Your purchases of $800 thousand fell below the mandatory reporting threshold for purchases of $4 million; therefore, you have three options:

Yes, include services transactions that you have with each individual foreign country (even those that are not listed on the form). Write in the names of the countries on the lines below where it says “Other-Specify country.” If you run out of space, use the overflow sheets, making sure that you list the proper service type with the proper country.

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On pages 3 and 4 of the survey, each type of service or intangible asset transaction covered by the survey has a number corresponding to it (for example, advertising services are reported under transaction code 10). If you check a “yes” box in Table 1, then enter the transaction code associated with that service under “Transaction Code” on Schedule A (U.S. Reporter’s Sales of Selected Services and Intangible Assets to Foreign Persons). If you check a “yes” box in Table 2, then enter the transaction code associated with that service on Schedule B (U.S.

Report currency amounts in U.S. dollars rounded to thousands (omitting 000). For example $1,455,328 should be reported as 1,455 and $2,328,596 should be reported as 2,329. Amounts less than $500 round to 0 and should, therefore, be omitted.

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International organizations (such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) are, according to balance of payments conventions, considered foreign entities, even if they are headquartered in the United States. Transactions in services with these organizations should be reported on the BE-125. Enter “Int’l Org” under “Other – Specify country” on Schedules A, B, or C and enter the data for each transaction type for which you had transactions.

No. We collect data by country, not by region.

No. Please report on a gross value basis. Receipts are reported on Schedule A and payments are reported on Schedule B of the BE-125, except for transaction codes 13, 16, and 23 whose sales are reported on Schedule C. Purchases of these services are reportable on Schedule B.

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All transactions should be reported on an accrual basis except telecommunication services which should be recorded on a settlement basis.

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