Lobbying registrant · LD-2 disclosures
Zte USA
Texas
44 filings · 1 client · 3 lobbyists registered · 2012–2022 · latest filed Feb 23, 2023
Fees billed to clients
$0
never billed a fee — files for itself
Its own lobbying spend
$5.9M
filed on its own behalf
Clients represented
1
3 lobbyists registered
Note · At least one filing discloses a foreign entity with an interest in a client this registrant represents. Those disclosures are listed below.
Reported 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.
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.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Trade (domestic/foreign)
TRD · 1 client
22 filings
$5.3M on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC · 1 client
7 filings
$1.7M 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.
- Peter Luke RuffoCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, US Senate 2008-201128 filings1 client · through 2017
- Angela SimpsonCovered position: Deputy Assistant Secretary, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of Commerce (2013-2017)4 filings1 client · through 2018
- Jon ChristensenCovered position: Member of Congress, 1994-19981 filing1 client · through 2012
Covered positions · 3 of 3 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.
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Zhongxing Telecommunications Equipment (Zte) Corporation
China
2 filings
through 2019
Zte Corp.
China
1 filing
through 2017
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 44 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: zte-usa.