• Foreign regulation of U.S. suppliers of financial information services - CHINA: U.S. WTO case against China; implementation of U.S.-China Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on licensing of foreign financial information services providers; regulations of China State Council Information Office (SCIO) for foreign financial information service providers. KOREA: proposed policies governing distribution of Korea Stock Exchange data; WTO International Services Agreement negotiations.

Duration: January 8, 2008 to December 31, 2019

General Issues: Trade (Domestic & Foreign)

Spending: about $1,320,000 (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 2008: U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), State - Dept of (DOS), Treasury - Dept of, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR),