Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
Action for Trade Japan Fka the a C T I O N for Trade
District of Columbia
12 filings from 1 registrant · 2017–2020 · latest filed Oct 20, 2020
Reported on its behalf
$450K
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$450K
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD
8 filings
$400K on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
6 filings
$300K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
- Brian Arthur Pomper Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Ch Intl Trade Cnsl, Intl Trade Cnsl, Senate Fin10 filingsthrough 2020
- Joshua Teitelbaum Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce, 2014-2016; Staff Director, US Senate HELP Subcommittee on Children and Families, 2013-2014; Legislative Assistant, Senator Kay Hagan, 2011-2013; Legislative Counsel, Congressman Steve Israel, 2009-201110 filingsthrough 2020
- Justin Mccarthy Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & FeldCovered position: ​Spec. Asst to Pres for leg affairs, exec ofc of pres, jan08-dec08; asst. USTR for congress. affairs, exec. Offc of pres, jan06-dec07; asst. USTR for intergov. & pub affairs, exec offc of pres, sep05-may06; leg asst, rep Thomas w. ewing, jan96-jul988 filingsthrough 2019
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: action-for-trade-japan-fka-the-a-c-t-i-o-n-for-trade.