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Caught Our Eye

Trump tariffs set off lobbying boom

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 30, 2018

President Trump's aluminum and steel tariffs may not be popular among the country's economists, but for lobbying groups, they're as good as gold.

Trade and tariff lobbying has soared in the months since President Trump announced that the U.S. would impose the tariffs on China, Canada, Mexico and the European Union.

In the second quarter of 2017, 1,305 federal lobbying contracts disclosed work on tariff and/or trade issues. This year during the same period, contracts mentioning tariff and trade work rose to 1,732 — an increase of nearly a third.