2nd 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; State & Local Sanctions Litigation; Trade Enforcement Issues; US-EU Trade Negotiations; Miscellaneous Tariff Bill; Iran Sanctions; Cuba Embargo repeal; Russia Sanctions.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
ROBERT JAKE COLVIN	—
CHARLES WALTER DITTRICH	—
WILLIAM ALAN REINSCH	—
RICHARD NICHOLAS SAWAYA	—
RUFUS YERXA New	President

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

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Tax Reform Legislation; 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, OECD BEPS project including country-by-country and master file reporting; Stop Corporate Inversions Act; Levin inversion legislation, EU State Aid Investigations; EU-ATAD; Taxpayer Bill of Rights, Proposed Section 385 Regulations.

Lobbyist	Covered position, as disclosed
CATHERINE SCHULTZ	—

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

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.