Foreign interests in US lobbying

1,299 entities from 84 countries, named in section 7 of 1,157 Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

What section 7 is

Section 7 of the LD-2 asks the registrant to name any foreign entity that holds an ownership stake in the client, contributes money toward the lobbying, or has an interest in how it turns out. A foreign government, a foreign parent company and a foreign investor all land here.

Being named in section 7 is a disclosure the law requires. It is not an allegation, a finding, or evidence of wrongdoing.

Entities

1,299

Distinct names, across 1,796 disclosures

Countries

As coded by the filer

Filings

1,157

Carry at least one section 7 entity

Spend on those filings

$44.7 million

Income plus expenses, amended filings excluded

A filing reports one lump spending figure for all of its lobbying, so the money column is the spend of the filings a country's entities appear on, not money that came from that country. One filing can name entities from several countries and is counted under each of them, so the column adds up to more than the total above. Where a later amendment restated a period, only the current filing's money counts; the entity and filing counts include every filing.

Countries by number of entities disclosed 84

#	Country	Entities	Disclosures	Filings	Spend on those filings
1	United Kingdom GB	141	212	143	$7,073,375
2	Canada CA	89	119	107	$8,766,079
3	Germany DE	75	96	76	$350,000
4	Japan JP	59	88	76	$1,205,000
5	Switzerland CH	57	103	91	$11,110,000
6	Australia AU	57	69	60	$150,000
7	China CN	51	64	43	$790,000
8	South Korea KR	50	92	51	$4,695,000
9	France FR	50	67	57	$522,803
10	Netherlands NL	41	71	65	$7,290,000
11	Israel IL	41	56	46	$310,000
12	Luxembourg LU	38	59	36	$760,000
13	Denmark DK	38	48	22	$580,053
14	Brazil BR	38	41	21	$89,000
15	Cayman Islands KY	37	50	41	$2,660,000
16	Singapore SG	26	35	28	$4,090,000
17	United States of America US	25	36	31	$110,000
18	Virgin Islands (British) VG	24	38	27	$3,650,000
19	Spain ES	23	25	18	$20,000
20	Italy IT	22	23	18	$20,000
21	India IN	22	27	22	$0
22	Norway NO	21	30	25	$560,000
23	United Arab Emirates AE	20	23	15	$410,800
24	Hong Kong HK	19	24	20	$1,300,000
25	Ireland IE	18	24	21	$1,740,000
26	Sweden SE	18	19	17	$60,000
27	Bermuda BM	16	21	20	$120,000
28	Jersey JE	11	11	5	$0
29	Türkiye TR	11	13	8	$0
30	Kuwait KW	10	10	2	$150,000
31	Austria AT	9	10	10	$50,000
32	Belgium BE	9	14	14	$0
33	Mexico MX	8	11	11	$250,000
34	Taiwan TW	8	8	6	$70,000
35	New Zealand NZ	8	11	8	$0
36	Venezuela VE	8	8	4	$0
37	Greece GR	7	7	5	$0
38	Finland FI	6	12	12	$410,000
39	Mauritius MU	6	8	6	$0
40	Argentina AR	5	6	4	$0
41	Saint Kitts and Nevis KN	5	6	6	$0
42	South Africa ZA	5	5	3	$0
43	Poland PL	4	8	8	$90,000
44	El Salvador SV	4	14	6	$0
45	Morocco MA	3	4	3	$20,000
46	Chile CL	3	3	2	$0
47	Czechia CZ	3	3	1	$0
48	Guernsey GG	3	4	4	$0
49	Liechtenstein LI	3	3	2	$0
50	Panama PA	3	3	3	$0
51	Seychelles SC	3	3	3	$0
52	Vietnam VN	3	3	3	$0
53	Cambodia KH	2	2	1	$0
54	Dominican Republic DO	2	2	2	$0
55	Indonesia ID	2	2	2	$0
56	Kyrgyzstan KG	2	3	3	$0
57	Portugal PT	2	3	3	$0
58	Qatar QA	2	2	2	$0
59	Romania RO	2	2	1	$0
60	Ukraine UA	2	2	2	$0
61	Virgin Islands (U.S.) VI	2	3	3	$0
62	Kazakhstan KZ	1	2	2	$30,000
63	Pakistan PK	1	2	2	$30,000
64	Uzbekistan UZ	1	2	2	$30,000
65	Andorra AD	1	1	1	$0
66	Bahamas BS	1	2	2	$0
67	Belize BZ	1	1	1	$0
68	Bulgaria BG	1	1	1	$0
69	Colombia CO	1	1	1	$0
70	Cyprus CY	1	1	1	$0
71	Egypt EG	1	1	1	$0
72	Guatemala GT	1	1	1	$0
73	Haiti HT	1	1	1	$0
74	Honduras HN	1	1	1	$0
75	Hungary HU	1	1	1	$0
76	Iceland IS	1	1	1	$0
77	Lebanon LB	1	1	1	$0
78	Lithuania LT	1	1	1	$0
79	Moldova MD	1	1	1	$0
80	North Macedonia MK	1	1	1	$0
81	Oman OM	1	1	1	$0
82	Papua New Guinea PG	1	1	1	$0
83	Philippines PH	1	1	1	$0
84	Slovenia SI	1	1	1	$0

Source: section 7 of federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings, as reported by the registrant. Country codes and country names are the filer's own. Also on this section: conviction disclosures, the revolving door, top spenders.