3rd Quarter - Report

SUNTORY GLOBAL SPIRITS, INC. (FORMERLY BEAM SUNTORY INC.) for SUNTORY GLOBAL SPIRITS, INC. (FORMERLY BEAM SUNTORY INC.)

Firm
Client
Income
—
Expenses
$410,000
Expense method
A: Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions

What was lobbied

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

Trade (domestic/foreign) TRD

Revisions or alterations to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Foreign entity interest: Beam Suntory Inc., an Illinois corporation, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Suntory Holdings Limited, a Japanese corporation.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
TERRY MCNAUGHTON —

Contacted: Commerce, Dept of (DOC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Agriculture AGR

Provisions involving animal feed manufacturing in the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (PL 111-353), and reasserting an exemption for spirits from such provisions, as included in aforementioned law.

Foreign entity interest: Beam Suntory Inc., an Illinois corporation, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Suntory Holdings Limited, a Japanese corporation.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
TERRY MCNAUGHTON —

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE; Commerce, Dept of (DOC)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Issues focusing on territory use of rum cover over revenues; legislation to limit U.S. territories use of economic development incentives; retaining rum program contained in PL 112-240; comprehensive tax reform; support for H.R. 2520, the Distillery Innovation and Excise Tax Reform Act of 2015, a rollback in the Federal Excise Tax on distilled spirits and the revision of capitalized interest rules for aged spirits.

Foreign entity interest: Beam Suntory Inc., an Illinois corporation, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Suntory Holdings Limited, a Japanese corporation.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
TERRY MCNAUGHTON —

Contacted: SENATE; Commerce, Dept of (DOC); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: H.R. 2520 (115th)

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.