BEA Survey Questions

Data reported on the BE-125 should be consolidated and reported at the top U.S. reporter's level. A consolidated BE-125 will cover all of your U.S. domestic operations' transactions with unaffiliated foreign persons, and it will also cover your U.S. domestic operations' transactions with your foreign affiliates, foreign parents, and members of your foreign parent group for services and intellectual property. The BE-125 DOES NOT cover transactions by your foreign affiliates with other foreign persons.

No. Your transaction is with a U.S. affiliate of that foreign company. This would be considered a domestic transaction and therefore not reported on the BE-125.

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

Other selected services include all services transactions that are not separately listed and are not specifically excluded. This category excludes 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; 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. receipts and U.S.

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.

Cloud computing is reportable under transaction code 12, computer and data processing services. Also, payments for software that was delivered electronically are reportable under transaction code 12.

No. Value-added services are classified under manufacturing services for balance of payments accounting. Currently, the BE-125 survey does not collect information on manufacturing services. Merchanting services only covers goods that are both purchased and resold abroad where no significant improvements are made while those goods are owned by the merchant.

The sale of general use software for individual or personal use that is downloaded or otherwise electronically delivered is recorded as computer services, transaction code 12 (computer and data processing services). Licenses related to customized software, that is, software designed for a specific user, is also recorded as transaction code 12. Note that software sold on physical media with the right to perpetual use is treated as goods, and therefore not reportable on the BE-125 survey.

Yes. Your transaction is with your foreign parent and is considered a transaction with a foreign person and therefore should be reported on the BE-125 under the column marked Foreign Parent Group.

Yes. Your transaction is with a foreign affiliate of a foreign parent and is considered a transaction with a foreign person and therefore should be reported on the BE-125 under the column marked Foreign Parent Group.