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 they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
70 filings
$6.9M on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
70 filings
$6.9M 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 does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Robert Jake Colvin65 filings1 client · through 2026
Richard Nicholas Sawaya54 filings1 client · through 2022
Catherine Schultz52 filings1 client · through 2021
Charles Walter Dittrich33 filings1 client · through 2016
William Alan Reinsch31 filings1 client · through 2016
J Daniel O'Flaherty30 filings1 client · through 2016
The filings
The 20 most recent of 70 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: national-foreign-trade-council-inc.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $6.9M in expenses.
money on filings that named this issue
Tiffany L SmithCovered position: Office of the US Trade Representative19 filings1 client · through 2026
Rufus YerxaCovered position: President18 filings1 client · through 2021
Anne GordonCovered position: U.S. Senate17 filings1 client · through 2026
Vanessa Sciarra13 filings1 client · through 2020
JOHN FRANCIS PICKEL jr11 filings1 client · through 2025
Bradley Raymond Wood8 filings1 client · through 2026
Margaret CekutaCovered position: United States Trade Representative and Council of Economic Advisers7 filings1 client · through 2023
Benjamin Charles WastlerCovered position: U.S. Customs Border Protection6 filings1 client · through 2022
John Pickel4 filings1 client · through 2026
Susan Frank2 filings1 client · through 2008
Covered positions · 5 of 16 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
