• Work with Department of Commerce to remove or significantly reduce tariff rate from a current anti-dumping order and countervailing duty order placed on Delverde.

Duration: January 22, 2009 to August 31, 2009

General Issues: Trade (Domestic & Foreign)

Spending: about $60,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2009: Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Intl Trade Administration (ITA), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)

Related Foreign Entities: Molinos Rio de la Plata S.A. (Pcia.deBuenosAires, ARG); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 35%