SECOND MEASUREMENT SM-024 · COUNTRY LOOKUP

Who works for a foreign government or company in the US, and did they report on time?

Pick a country. The card lists every foreign principal from that country with a registered US agent at any time since 1 January 2024, from the Justice Department’s FARA records, and each agent’s record on the six-monthly supplemental statement the law requires within 30 days of each period. The paper and method are at sm-024.html. For US lobbyists filing under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, see the lobbying lookup (SM-020).

A foreign principal is the government, party, company or person the agent works for; the agent (the registrant) is the US firm or person registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. One supplemental statement covers all of an agent’s principals, so the late count belongs to the agent, not to the country or the principal. Late means the statement was received (the FARA Unit’s receipt stamp, or its bulk file’s date where no stamp was read) more than 30 days after the end of the six-month period printed on the statement. The Unit may grant an extension “in limited cases” on a written request made before the due date; extensions do not appear in its filings data, so any late statement may have had one. A row shows the agent’s whole record since January 2024, including statements from before that principal became a client. Payments are reported inside each statement (linked) and are not tallied here; OpenSecrets’ Foreign Lobby Watch tallies them. Data: lookup.json, built by build_lookup.py from DOJ’s bulk FARA files and our reading of every statement filed since January 2024.