---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 31.205-43"
title: "48"
number: "31.205-43"
heading: "Trade, business, technical, and professional activity costs."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/31.205-43"
---

# §31.205-43. Trade, business, technical, and professional activity costs.


The following types of costs are allowable:

- (a) **Memberships in trade, business, technical, and professional organizations.**
- (b) **Subscriptions to trade, business, professional, or other technical periodicals.**
- (c) When the principal purpose of a meeting, convention, conference, symposium, or seminar is the dissemination of trade, business, technical or professional information or the stimulation of production or improved productivity:
  - (1) Costs of organizing, setting up, and sponsoring the meetings, conventions, symposia, etc., including rental of meeting facilities, transportation, subsistence, and incidental costs;
  - (2) Costs of attendance by contractor employees, including travel costs (see 31.205-46); and
  - (3) Costs of attendance by individuals who are not employees of the contractor, provided;
    - (i) Such costs are not also reimbursed to the individual by the employing company or organization, and
    - (ii) The individual's attendance is essential to achieve the purpose of the conference, meeting, convention, symposium, etc.

## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 42301, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 53 FR 27467, July 20, 1988; 60 FR 42660, Aug. 16, 1995]

### Authority

Authority: 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 42301, Sept. 19, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 42301, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 53 FR 27467, July 20, 1988; 60 FR 42660, Aug. 16, 1995]