2025 third_quarter Filing
Q3Lobbying Activities
1. APHIS facility inspections and approvals with regard to foreign market access, general market access and export issues, including export certificates for animal products. 2. General efforts to prevent diseases, like African Swine Fever (ASF) and New World Screwworm from entering the U.S. 3. General tariff and trade disrupting issues affecting pet food manufacturers. Specifically supports suspending, reducing, or eliminating tariffs which hinder food and agriculture exports. 4. Supports addressing and finding solutions to the ongoing challenges impacting our nation's food and agricultural supply chains, specifically as it relates to the pet food industry. 5. Supports uninterrupted trade between the U.S., Mexico and Canada to provide access to the goods they need, including pet food. 6. General efforts for China market access and export registrations to China. Supports Economic Trade Agreement between the Government of the United States and the Government of the People's Republic of China. 7. Supports U.S. agricultural export promotion and long-term market development. Specifically, H.R. 1086: Agriculture Export Promotion Act of 2025; which would expand and extend the Market Access Program and Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program through FY2029. 8. Supports strengthening multilateral trade rules on agriculture that promotes resilient, adaptive, and innovative agricultural markets. 9. Supports Luke Lindberg's nomination to be the next Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs at the US Department of Agriculture. 10. Concerned about USDA's hiring freeze and other headcount reduction policies that could have unintended consequences on the animal food sector and its customers. We request the Department consider lifting headcount reduction policies, especially for user-fee funded positions at APHIS and FSIS. 11. Supports the nomination of Dr. Julie Callahan as Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. 12. Supports maintaining USDAs core international trade policy functions-including those within the Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs (TFAA) and other relevant USDA staff-in Washington, D.C.