This will not be the result of foreign lobbying indeed, China is more likely to change its policy if foreign policymakers shut up.
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U.S. and other foreign companies are lobbying against the rules, saying they conflict with free-trade norms.
Over the past several weeks and months, Israel's top leaders have devoted themselves to lobbying foreign governments to support sanctions against Iran.
The circular came as a surprise to those lobbying for or against foreign investment in retail.
He spent the family's savings on work such as gathering pollution data and lobbying the domestic and foreign press.
The following day, the Washington Times exposed the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) for allegedly lobbying on behalf of the Iranian government in violation of the Lobbying Disclosure Act and the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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Hedge funds, security dealers, US subsidiaries of foreign banks, they're all said to be lobbying the Treasury Department for some of the money.
The lobbying firm boasts the services of two onetime foreign policy hands of President Bush: Ambassador Robert Blackwill, the former deputy national security adviser who was Bush's envoy to Iraq and helped form Allawi's interim government in 2004, and Philip Zelikow, former counselor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The details are complex but the main thrust is that, in response to lobbying from transnational U.S. corporations and foreign governments, Congress has made it much harder for small U.S. inventors to protect their intellectual property from infringement and even from outright theft.
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Labour foreign affairs spokesman Douglas Alexander said the latest allegations showed that rules about lobbying needed to be reformed.
In addition to its legal services, the firm registered as an agent of a foreign principal under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA) as well as the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (LDA) to press the Kuwaiti detainees' cause on Capitol Hill.
This was after the Indian government allowed foreign investment of up to 49% in domestic airlines, a move that Kingfisher had been lobbying for.
The worst outcome, a highly discriminatory treatment of foreign holders of government debt, has been avoided (or at least postponed) thanks to frantic lobbying by, among others, the International Monetary Fund, which threatened to cancel the second tranche of its aid programme to Russia.
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