BEA Survey Questions

Please note that each U.S. multinational enterprise must retain a copy of its report for at least 3 years after the report’s original due date.

If prior filings were submitted through the BEA eFile System at www.bea.gov/efile, these reports may be accessed through this system.

A complete response includes a BE-10A form for the U.S. parent's domestic operation and one or more BE-10B, BE-10C, or BE-10D forms for its foreign affiliates.

Form BE-10A

• Form BE-10A must be filed by each U.S. person that has a foreign affiliate reportable in fiscal year 2024. Data on Form BE-10A pertain to the fully consolidated U.S. domestic business enterprise for the U.S. Reporter’s 2024 fiscal year

Form BE-10B

A complete BE-10 report is due on the following dates:

• May 30, 2025 for a U.S. Reporter required to file fewer than 50 Forms BE-10B, BE-10C, and/or BE-10D
• June 30, 2025 for a U.S. Reporter required to file 50 or more Forms BE-10B, BE-10C, and/or BE-10D

If you were notified by BEA to file a BE-10 survey, but your business does not meet the filing requirements, the BE-10 Claim for Not Filing must be submitted.

If you were NOT notified by BEA to file a BE-10 survey, and you do NOT meet BE-10 filing requirements, no action is necessary.

The BE-10 benchmark survey is BEA's most comprehensive survey, in terms of both the number of companies covered and the amount of information gathered, on U.S multinational enterprises. The survey is conducted once every 5 years in place of the BE-11 annual survey. The BE-11 annual survey is conducted during the 4 years in between benchmark surveys.

A BE-10 report is required of any U.S. person that had a foreign affiliate – that is, that had a direct or indirect ownership or control of at least 10 percent of the voting stock of an incorporated foreign business enterprise, or an equivalent interest in an unincorporated foreign business enterprise – at the end of the U.S. person’s 2024 fiscal year. Certain private funds may be exempt from filing; go to www.bea.gov/privatefunds for further information.

The BE-10 is BEA's most comprehensive survey, in terms of both the number of companies covered and the amount of information gathered, on financial and operating data of U.S. multinational enterprises and their foreign affiliates. The survey is used to produce statistics on the scale and effects of US-owned business activities abroad. Business leaders use these statistics to inform decisions about hiring and investing. Policymakers and researchers use them to analyze the impacts of direct investment on jobs, wages, productivity and taxes.

One BE-45 survey should be completed on behalf of the consolidated domestic U.S. Reporter. The fully consolidated domestic U.S. 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 domestic U.S. enterprise excludes foreign branches and other foreign affiliates.

The country transactions are based on the domicile of the foreign parties engaging in the transaction.

Report data 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.