VALE USA LLC

• BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP $230,000 Outside firm · 5 filings
• LILETTE ADVISORS $50,000 Outside firm · 4 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

• 2026 $180,000 3 filings
• 2025 $100,000 6 filings

• Manufacturing 8
• Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills) 3
• Taxation/Internal Revenue Code 3
• Trade (domestic/foreign) 3

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

• HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 6
• SENATE 5
• Energy, Dept of 4
• Commerce, Dept of (DOC) 2
• Executive Office of the President (EOP) 2
• State, Dept of (DOS) 2
• Natl Security Council (NSC) 1

• VALE, S.A. Brazil named on 2 filings · highest disclosed ownership 100% · largest disclosed contribution $0

Section 7 of the LD-2: a foreign company or government that owns part of the client, pays toward the lobbying, or benefits from it. Figures are the highest single disclosure across these filings, not a sum: the same stake is re-disclosed each quarter.