# 2025-15645: 95 Hours of Paperwork: Uncle Sam Tracks Your Foreign Investments

2025-15645, Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Direct Investment Surveys: BE-11, Annual Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad, is a Federal Register notice from Commerce Department, Economic Analysis Bureau published 2025-08-18, effective Notice published August 18, 2025. The notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments. (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15645
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-15645
- Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Direct Investment Surveys: BE-11, Annual Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Commerce Department; Economic Analysis Bureau
- Citation: 90 FR 40055
- Published: 2025-08-18
- Effective: Notice published August 18, 2025. The notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

95 Hours of Paperwork: Uncle Sam Tracks Your Foreign Investments

## Summary

The Department of Commerce is asking for approval to continue its big annual survey that checks how U.S. companies invest in other countries. About 3,000 U.S. companies will spend time filling out detailed forms, helping the government understand global business impacts. This update keeps the survey going with some changes, and folks have 30 more days to share their thoughts before it kicks off.

## Effects PRIA read

- Mandatory annual reporting for U.S. parents: cost, high. If your organization is a U.S. parent company of foreign affiliates, you are required to respond to the BE-11 Annual Survey. About 3,000 U.S. parent companies must respond; BEA estimates an average of 95.2 hours per U.S. parent and a total annual burden of 285,630 hours. Responding is mandatory und…
- Detailed financial data collection requirements: cost, medium. The BE-11 requires U.S. parents to provide detailed financial and operational data, including balance sheets, income statements, property, plant and equipment, employment and employee compensation, merchandise trade, sales of goods and services, taxes, and research and development activity. BEA use…

## Related documents

- [2026-06039](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-06039): Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request;…, 2026-03-30
- [2026-06040](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-06040): Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request;…, 2026-03-30
- [2026-05074](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-05074): BE-577: Quarterly Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad-Transactions of U.S. Reporter With Foreign Affiliate, 2026-03-16
- [2026-05080](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-05080): BE-29: Annual Survey of Foreign Ocean Carriers' Expenses in the United States, 2026-03-16
- [2026-05075](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-05075): BE-11: Annual Survey of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad, 2026-03-16
- [2026-05076](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-05076): BE-9: Quarterly Survey of Foreign Airline Operators' Revenues and Expenses in the United States, 2026-03-16

## Sources
- [2025-15645 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/18/2025-15645/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-omb-for)
- [2025-15645 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-08-18/pdf/2025-15645.pdf)

## Related
- [Previous: 2025-15641, Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15641)
- [Next: 2025-15648, Petition for Exemption; Summary of Petition Received; Helicopter Consultants of…](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15648)
- [All Federal Register documents](https://policyrisk.com/federal-register)

Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15645 (as of 2026-06-08).