American Apparel & Footwear Association

Based in DC

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AI Overview

With $6.4M in lobbying spend across 32 quarterly filings, American Apparel & Footwear Association is one of the biggest lobbying spenders in Washington. They deploy 11 individual lobbyists Their lobbying covers 10 issue areas. Active from 2018 to 2025.

$6.4M

Total Spend

Years Active

Firms Hired

Lobbyists Deployed

Issues Lobbied

Spending Trend

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Year	Lobbying Spend
2018	$775K
2019	$659K
2020	$763K
2021	$597K
2022	$726K
2023	$781K
2024	$1.0M
2025	$1.1M

Issues Lobbied

Apparel Trade Defense Tariffs Small Business Environment Labor Issues Consumer Issues Transportation Copyright/Patent

Lobbying Firms

American Apparel & Footwear Association

Lobbyists

Steve Lamar Nate Herman Kristen Kern Christina Mitropoulos Beth Hughes Trisha Delloiacono Jennifer Hanks Chelsea Murtha Audrey Clark Gary Jamgotchian Conor O'brien

What They Lobby About

These are actual descriptions from their quarterly lobbying disclosure filings, summarizing what they lobbied Congress and federal agencies about.Issue areas: Apparel, Trade, Defense, Tariffs, Small Business and 5 more

•Transportation
•Discussions with Congress and Administration on Hours of Service (HoS) rules.
•Discussions with Congress and Administration, including President, on disruptions of West and East/Gulf Co

•Miscellaneous Trade (TRD)
•Discussions with Congress and Administration (including USTR, Commerce, ITC, Labor, State, Agriculture, the SEC, and Customs):
•oon modernization of North American Free Trade

•Defense (DEF)
•Comments and discussions on Berry Amendment, Federal Prison Industries, and Ability One programs.
•Discussions with Members of Congress, DoD, USTR, TSA, and DHS about implementation of B

•TAR (Miscellaneous Tariff Bills).
•Working on MTB petitions submitted in conjunction with the ITC process established pursuant to the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016.
•Comments to USI