• Application by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Treasury Department of Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, Sec. 906 (Drawback and Refunds); CBP denial of drawback of taxes paid to Alcohol Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB); TTB and/or Treasury Department regulations limiting CBP drawback of taxes paid to CBP or TTB to claims based on exports of tax-paid substitutes; amendments to customs drawback statute to reconfirm eligibility of distilled spirits, wine and beer for drawback of taxes based on export without taxes of substitute product and to broaden the interchangeability of imported and exported whiskies in order to permit whiskey tax drawback.

Duration: October 1, 2017 to present

General Issues: Beverage Industry, Miscellaneous Tariff Bills, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Spending: about $0 (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 2017: U.S. Senate, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Treasury - Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB)