BEA Survey Questions

• If your company was acquired by another U.S. company during, or prior to its fiscal year end 2024, please complete pages one and two of the survey and in response to question number 3, write the name and address of your company’s U.S. parent.
• If your company was purchased by a foreign company, complete the survey as it pertains to you and go to www.bea.gov/surveys/fdiusurv for information on foreign direct investment survey requirements.
• If your company purchased another U.S.

If you are reporting sales and/or purchases of more than one transaction type, or need to report additional country detail, please use the overflow sheets provided (pages 28-30 of the survey). Additional overflow pages can also be downloaded at www.bea.gov/ssb/be180.

If you are completing the survey using BEA’s electronic filing system, eFile, select “Add overflow” from the survey selection page.

• Surveys can be filed electronically via www.bea.gov/efile.
• Surveys can be mailed to:
  Bureau of Economic Analysis
  Balance of Payments Division, BE-50 (SSB)
  4600 Silver Hill Rd.
  Washington, DC 20233
• Surveys can be delivered via UPS, Federal Express, or other private couriers to:
  Bureau of Economic Analysis
  Balance of Payments Division, BE-50 (SSB) 4600 Silver Hill Rd.
  Suitland, MD 20746
• Surveys can be faxed to: (301) 278-9508

Yes. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) regulations require each U.S. financial services provider that had transactions with foreign persons in the covered services during its 2024 fiscal year to file a BE-180, regardless of whether they have been contacted by BEA. Additionally, while there is some overlap between the two surveys, the BE-180 collects additional information not covered by the BE-185 survey.

Any revisions or adjustments to transactions not reported on your 2024 BE-185 filings should be made on the 2024 BE-180.

A. Several services categories have been adjusted or reordered. The services categories for 2024 are:

• A BE-180 survey is required of each U.S. person that is a financial service provider or intermediary, or whose consolidated U.S. enterprise includes a separately organized subsidiary, or part, that is a financial services provider or intermediary, that had financial services transactions with foreign persons in the covered types of financial services during its 2024 fiscal year. Any U.S. person that did not have transactions with foreign persons in the covered services, is required to complete the survey through page 5, if notified by BEA about this survey.
• Any U.S.

You may be receiving notification from BEA regarding the BE-180 survey for one of several reasons:

Requests for an extension of the reporting deadline, if provided in writing, may be considered if it is received by the due date. You may fax the request to (301) 278-9508 or e-mail the request to BE-180extension@bea.gov. BEA will provide a written response to such a request. Extension requests can also be made using BEA’s eFile system. Visit www.bea.gov/efile for this option.

We discourage reporters from sending their completed surveys via email because of concerns about confidentiality. Your email is not necessarily secure against interception by a third party.

No. The Cyber Security Act of 2015 requires all Federal Agencies to protect confidential information from cyber security risks. Because email systems are not necessarily secure against interception by a third party, BEA prohibits the transmission of all confidential information via this method. However, you may submit your form electronically using BEA’s secure eFile system. Any electronic correspondence between you and BEA staff should be conducted through eFile’s secure messaging system.