• International trade, cross-border investment, and international competitiveness policies and issues, including: 1. Customs, trade, and investment issues and negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Customs Organization (WCO); the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); the World Health Organization (WHO); and other multilateral fora, including meetings of the governments and industries of the Group of 20 (G20); 2. Negotiation, discussion, and/or implementation of U.S. trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA); 3. Negotiation, discussion, and/or implementation of other trade agreements, including expansion of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), negotiation of an Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA), and implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) in the WTO; 4. International trade and investment with Brazil, Russia, India, China, Cuba and Taiwan. 5. Issues arising under the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and other trade agreements to which the United States is a party; 6. Investment policies and disputes, including U.S. Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) negotiations and discussions with Brazil, China, India, and other countries; 7. Policies and procedures for reviewing foreign direct investments, including review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS); 8. Government procurement, including the negotiation of Chinas accession to the Government Procurement Agreement of the WTO; 9. Buy America policies and legislation; 10. Trade-remedy laws, and trade-enforcement legislation; 11. Foreign tariff and non-tariff barriers, and other import restraints; 12. Intellectual property rights (IPR) policies, protections, legislation and enforcement efforts, including with respect to trade secrets; 13. Efforts and policies to combat illicit trade; 14. Customs and trade facilitation policies, procedures, regulations, legislation, and international negotiations; 15. Import and food-safety policies and procedures; 16. U.S. and foreign agricultural trade policies and issues, including U.S. sugar policies; 17. U.S. and foreign export controls and restraints; 18. U.S. economic-sanctions policies and legislation; 19. U.S. export-promotion policies and procedures; 20. U.S. tax laws, legislation, and international tax-competitiveness issues; 21. Trade and development policies, including those regarding cross-border data flows, and trade-preference programs and legislation, such as the renewal, operation and administration of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP); 22. Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) policies and legislation; 23. U.S. visa policies, including temporary-entry business visas; 24. U.S. labor and environmental laws, policies, and issues as they relate to international trade and cross-border investment, including Lacey Act (16 U.S.C. 3371 et seq.) policies and procedures, and climate-change policies and legislation.
• Miscellaneous Tariff Legislation

Duration: January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2016

General Issues: Trade (Domestic & Foreign), Miscellaneous Tariff Bills

Spending: about $9,783,435 (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. Senate, House of Representatives, White House Office, Treasury - Dept of, State - Dept of (DOS), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Natl Security Council (NSC), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Natl Economic Council (NEC), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR),, Energy - Dept of