Form BE-40 Institutional Remittances to Foreign Countries

OMB No. 0608–0002: Approval Expires 01/31/2011
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Form BE–40

Name, address, telephone no., and institution code.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

(REV. 01/08)

BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

INSTITUTIONAL REMITTANCES TO
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
If your address, telephone number, or other information is different
than what is stated on the cover letter, please check this box.

RETURN TO

U.S. Department of Commerce
Bureau of Economic Analysis, (BE–58)
Washington, DC 20230 or file
electronically at

BEA USE ONLY

Period covered by report

BEA USE ONLY

TOTAL REMITTANCES TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES
COUNTRY/INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
(a)

35706

ARGENTINA

33506

BOLIVIA

35106

BRAZIL

12205

CANADA

33706

CHILE

57010

CHINA

30106

COLOMBIA

33106

ECUADOR

42702

FRANCE

42802

GERMANY

20506

GUATEMALA

21506

HONDURAS

58210

HONG KONG

53310

INDIA

56010

INDONESIA

50810

ISRAEL

47502

ITALY

58809

JAPAN

77910

KENYA

20106

MEXICO

33306

PERU

56510

PHILIPPINES

46104

RUSSIA

79108

SOUTH AFRICA

46012

SPAIN

58310

TAIWAN

54910

THAILAND

41201

UNITED KINGDOM

90013

UNITED NATIONS

90113

OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

(thousands of dollars)
(b)

BEA USE ONLY

COUNTRY/INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
(a)

99999

TOTAL RESIDUAL DOLLAR AMOUNT

00000

TOTAL OF ALL REMITTANCES

Name and title of authorized official

(thousands of dollars)
(b)

see instructions under “Amounts to be Reported”

Date

Signature

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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
PURPOSE

actual data are not available, provide your best estimate.

Reports on Form BE–40 are requested from religious, charitable,
educational, and other nonprofit organizations in order to provide
reliable and up-to-date information on their remittances and
expenditures as they affect the U.S. balance of international
payments.

Report dollar amounts of $10,000 or more by country. Use
additional sheets as necessary to specify countries not listed.
All residual amounts not reported for a country should be added
together and reported under code 99999, Total Residual Dollar
Amount. The residual dollar amount when added together with
the country dollar amounts should equal your total amount given.

FILING OF REPORTS
If total yearly remittances abroad by your organization are
expected to equal $1,000,000 or more, a quarterly report is
requested and should be filed within 30 days after the close of
each quarter. All other organizations may file annual reports
within 90 days after the close of the calendar or fiscal year.
Please specify the beginning and ending dates of the
period covered by the report in the box on page 1.

EXEMPTION
A U.S. organization otherwise requested to report is exempted if
its total remittances are less than $100,000 in the year covered
by the report. If your organization is exempt from reporting,
please send a statement to that effect to avoid unnecessary
followups.

COUNTRY DISTRIBUTION
To the extent your records allow, please distribute your foreign
remittances and payments by the individual foreign countries
receiving the benefit of these transfers rather than by the country
in which the payment has been made. Thus, if outlays for goods
and services were paid in country A, but country B was the
benefiting recipient country, report the outlay in country B.

DUPLICATION
If remittances or shipments of goods (food, water, medicine,
etc.) by your organization are likely to be duplicated in the return
from any other private organization, please indicate that fact in
your reply, and give the name of the organization.

INSTITUTIONAL REMITTANCES TO REPORT
Transfers to foreign residents and organizations including:
1. Outright grants of cash
2. Payments abroad for the procurement of goods and services
to be used abroad
3. Expenditures for salaries and other administrative costs
abroad
4. The value of services rendered free of charge such as
transportation costs associated with goods transported
outside the U.S. border, if such transportation costs are
donated at your expense. Transportation costs should not be
included if they will ultimately be paid by the foreign recipient
of the goods or if the transportation costs were donated by
the U.S. Agency for International Development or other U.S.
Government agencies through subsidies or reimbursement.

Remittances to Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and
other U.S. Territories and Protectorates should not be included,
but remittances from these areas to foreign countries should
be included, because these areas are part of the balance-ofpayments area of the United States.

AMOUNTS TO BE REPORTED
Report amounts in U.S dollars rounded to thousands (omitting
000). Example - If amount is $1,033,642 report as $1,034. If
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NOTE—Sources of funds transferred: Include transfers
of—(1) funds collected from private donations; and (2) funds
borrowed from U.S. banks, insurance companies, and other
U.S. sources in anticipation of sums to be collected later from
private donations and pledges. (Your subsequent repayment of
the loans, and interest thereon, should not be counted again as
a foreign remittance or transfer, since the repayment represents
a domestic transaction between two U.S. residents—your
organization and the U.S. bank.)

WHERE TO SEND THE REPORT
Send reports filed by mail through the U.S. Postal Service
to:
U.S. Department of Commerce
Bureau of Economic Analysis
BE–58
Washington, DC 20230
Reports may be filed electronically at or
you may fax the report to 202–606–5314

TRANSACTIONS THAT SHOULD NOT BE REPORTED
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For assistance, call 202–606–9576. Additonal copies of the form
are available at .

Do not include in this report shipments (exports) of
purchased or privately donated goods from the United
States to foreign countries (food, clothing, etc.). Also do
not include goods donated by or purchased from the
Department of Agriculture or other U.S. Government
agencies.
Do not include sums spent in the United States for
your administrative, promotional, etc., expenses;
sums collected in other countries; or sums collected
in this country during the reporting period but not yet
transferred to foreign accounts in the United States or
foreign banks. Do not include funds collected but not
yet donated or spent.
Do not include transportation costs outside the U.S.
border that will be paid (or reimbursed) by the foreign
recipient or by a U.S. Government agency.
Do not include any transactions (e.g., purchases
of goods for export) made with funds previously
transferred to, and now on deposit in, foreign recipients’
bank accounts in the United States (or abroad).
Do not include transactions involving the fulfillment
of contracts with the U.S. Agency for International
Development or other U.S. Government agencies
to perform services in a foreign country. These
transactions may be reportable on Form BE-125; for
more information about this form, call 202-606-5588.

FORM BE-40 (REV. 01/08)

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