As part of its role to publish official U.S. economic statistics, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (“BEA”) conducts quarterly and annual surveys to gather information about U.S. direct investment abroad and foreign direct investment in the United States.
美國商務部經濟分析局（“BEA”） 負責公布美國官方經濟統(tǒng)計數據，進行季度和年度調查，以收集有關美國對外直接投資和外國在美直接投資的信息。
This year marks the deadline for submitting responses to the BEA’s BE-12 benchmark survey of foreign direct investment in the United States. The BE-12 survey is conducted every five years and is BEA’s most comprehensive survey on the financial and operating data of foreign businesses’ U.S. affiliates. BEA uses the data from survey responses to generate and publish statistics on the volume and impact of foreign businesses in the United States.
答復BEA的BE-12外國在美直接投資基準調查的最后期限就在今年。BE-12調查每五年進行一次，是BEA針對外國企業(yè)美國關聯公司財務和運營數據最全面的調查。BEA利用調查答復中的數據，生成并公布關于在美外國企業(yè)體量及影響的統(tǒng)計數據。
Given the breadth of information covered by the BE-12 survey, all Chinese companies with U.S. affiliates must be aware of the impending deadline to file their responses, which should cover fiscal years ending in 2017. BEA requires a BE-12 report to be submitted for each U.S. business in which a foreign person or entity owns or controls, directly or indirectly, 10 percent or more of the business’s voting securities (or an equivalent interest if such business is unincorporated) at the end of such business’s fiscal year ending in calendar year 2017. Although U.S. businesses may receive a notification to file from BEA, all eligible entities must submit the BE-12 survey, regardless of whether BEA has directly contacted them.
鑒于BE-12調查涵蓋的信息廣度，所有擁有美國關聯企業(yè)的中國公司都必須清楚即將來臨的提交答復截止日期，該答復應涵蓋在2017結束的財年。BEA要求，每家外國個人或實體直接或間接擁有或控制10%或以上有投票權證券（或相同利益，如果此類企業(yè)未組成股份有限公司）的美國企業(yè)，都必須在自身于2017年結束的財年截至時，提交一份BE-12備案。雖然美國企業(yè)可能會收到BEA的通知要求提交備案，所有符合條件的實體都必須提交BE-12備案，無論BEA是否直接聯系過該企業(yè)。
Only the qualifying U.S. business (as opposed to a foreign investor) needs to complete and file a response to the BE-12 survey, and it will use one of four forms based on the following criteria:
只有符合條件的美國企業(yè)（而不是外國投資人）需要完成并提交BE-12調查答復，并且應根據以下標準使用四種表格之一：
Form BE-12A – For majority-owned U.S. affiliates that have total assets, sales or gross operating revenues, or net income of more than $300M (whether positive or negative).
BE-12A表——用于外國企業(yè)控股且總資產、銷售收入、總營業(yè)收入或凈收入（無論是正收入還是負收入）超過3億美元的美國關聯企業(yè)。
Form BE-12B – For (1) majority-owned U.S. affiliates that have total assets, sales or gross operating revenues, or net income of more than $60M (whether positive or negative), but for which none of these exceed $300M (whether positive or negative), and (2) minority-owned U.S. affiliates that have total assets, sales or gross operating revenues, or net income of more than $60M (whether positive or negative)
BE-12B表——用于（1）外國企業(yè)控股且總資產、銷售收入、總營業(yè)收入或凈收入（無論是正收入還是負收入）超過6000萬美元，但總資產、銷售額、總營業(yè)收入及凈收入（無論是正收入還是負收入）均不超過3億美元的美國關聯企業(yè)，以及（2）外國企業(yè)少量持股且總資產、銷售收入、總營業(yè)收入或凈收入超過6000萬美元（無論是正收入還是負收入）的美國關聯企業(yè)。
Form BE-12C – For U.S. affiliates (whether majority- or minority-owned) that have total assets, sales, or gross operating revenues, or net income of $60M or less (whether positive or negative). Only selected items on this form must be completed for those affiliates with total assets, sales or gross operating revenues, or net income of less than $20M (whether positive or negative).
BE-12C表——用于（無論是外國企業(yè)控股還是少量持股的）總資產、銷售收入、總營業(yè)收入或凈收入（無論是正收入還是負收入）不超過6000萬美元（含）的美國關聯企業(yè)。如果該關聯企業(yè)的總資產、銷售收入、總營業(yè)收入或凈收入（無論是正收入還是負收入）低于2000萬美元，該關聯企業(yè)只需填寫表格上的部分項目。
Form BE-12 Claim for Not Filing – For U.S. affiliates that do not meet the requirements for filing any of the above BE-12 forms, but was contacted by BEA to file. Examples of such entities may include, but are not limited to, U.S. affiliates whose foreign voting ownership interest is less than 10 percent, U.S. affiliates that were fully consolidated or merged with the report of another U.S. affiliate, or U.S. businesses that were liquidated or dissolved.
BE-12表不申報要求——用于不符合任何上述BE-12表格提交條件、但BEA聯系并要求其提交備案的美國關聯企業(yè)。此類企業(yè)的例子可能包括但不限于，外資擁有的有投票權所有者權益低于10%的美國關聯企業(yè)、完全合并或者并入另一家美國關聯企業(yè)備案的美國關聯企業(yè)、或者被清算或解散的美國企業(yè)。
BE-12 responses must generally include information regarding the U.S. affiliate’s organizational structure and its foreign investors and parents (both direct and indirect), and financial and operating data including financial statements and description of the goods and services provided by the U.S. affiliate.

BE-12答復通常必須包含關于美國關聯企業(yè)組織結構、外國投資人和（直接和間接）母公司以及包括財務報表和對美國關聯公司所提供商品和服務的描述在內的財務和運營數據信息。

Hard copy submissions of completed BE-12 reports are due by May 31, 2018, while submissions made through BEA’s e-filing system are due by June 30, 2018. Failure to submit a BE-12 response may result in civil and/or criminal penalties.

紙質BE-12備案的提交截止日期為2018年5月31日，而通過BEA電子遞交系統(tǒng)提交備案的截止日期為2018年6月30日。未提交BE-12答復可能導致民事和/或刑事處罰。

If you have any questions regarding BEA or its surveys, please contact Laura Luo at laura.luo@us.kwm.com and Thomas Hsieh at thomas.hsieh@us.kwm.com.
如果您對BEA或BEA調查有任何疑問，請與羅華律師（laura.luo@us.kwm.com）和Thomas Hsieh律師（thomas.hsieh@us.kwm.com）聯系。