1st Quarter - Report — NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE COUNCIL, INC for NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE COUNCIL INC (2016)

Firm

NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE COUNCIL, INC

Client

NATIONAL FOREIGN TRADE COUNCIL INC

Income

—

Expenses

$90,000

Expense method

A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

What was lobbied

2 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Trade (domestic/foreign) TRD

Foreign Direct Investment; Visa Policy; Export Control Transatlantic Issues; China Trade Issues; OFAC Regulations; Eximbank authorization & appropriation; Iran Sanctions Legislation and implementation; U.S. Trade Relations with Middle East; U.S. Japan Trade Issues; Foreign Investment-CFIUS; Burma Sanctions; Trade Preference Program renewal and reform (GSP & others); APEC; Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP); Buy American Provisions; US-Libya Issues; Climate Change; Alien Tort Statute; State & Local Sanctions Litigation; Trade Enforcement Issues; US-EU Trade Negotiations; Miscellaneous Tariff Bill; Iran Sanctions; Cuba Embargo repeal.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
ROBERT JAKE COLVIN	—
CHARLES WALTER DITTRICH	—
J DANIEL O'FLAHERTY	—
WILLIAM ALAN REINSCH	—
RICHARD NICHOLAS SAWAYA	—

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Justice, Dept of (DOJ); U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA); State, Dept of (DOS); SENATE; Overseas Private Investment Corp (OPIC); Natl Economic Council (NEC); Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC); U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Treasury, Dept of; Natl Security Council (NSC); Commerce, Dept of (DOC); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Obama 2015 Budget; S. 727 Wyden/Coats Business Tax Fairness & Simplification Act of 2011; Ryan Pathway to Prosperity Budget Act; Tax Loop Holes; Tax treaties with Luxembourg, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Japan, Chile and OECD; multilateral convention; American Tax Relief Act/Fiscal Cliff Proposals, H.R. 1-Tax Reform, Expire Act - extend expiring tax provisions, AFE & CFC look through, extender bills in House; OECD BEPS project including country-by-country and master file reporting; Stop Corporate Inversions Act; Levin inversion legislation, PATH Act of 2015, Taxpayer Bill of Rights.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CATHERINE SCHULTZ	—

Contacted: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID); SENATE; U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Natl Economic Council (NEC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA); Overseas Private Investment Corp (OPIC); Internal Revenue Service (IRS); Agriculture, Dept of (USDA); Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC); Natl Security Council (NSC); Treasury, Dept of; Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS); State, Dept of (DOS); Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank); Commerce, Dept of (DOC); Justice, Dept of (DOJ)

Bills named: S. 727 (114th), H.R. 1 (114th)

Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.