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BASF supports policies that encourage cost-effective, reliable, and sustainable logistics and supply chain networks as supply chain disruptions and problems in multi-modal transportation systems can have significant economic and safety impacts across the economy.","foreign_entity_issues":"BASF Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE, a European entity.","lobbyists":[{"lobbyist":{"id":143232,"prefix":null,"prefix_display":null,"first_name":"MICHAEL","nickname":null,"middle_name":null,"last_name":"ANDERSON","suffix":null,"suffix_display":null},"covered_position":null,"new":false}],"government_entities":[{"id":2,"name":"HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES"},{"id":40,"name":"Transportation, Dept of (DOT)"}]},{"general_issue_code":"TAR","general_issue_code_display":"Tariff (miscellaneous tariff bills)","description":"Tarrifs. (H.R.8398 Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Reform Act). 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Implementation of 2016 reforms to Toxic Substances Control Act [P.L.94-469]. BASF supports regulatory processes that are science-based, transparent, and stable, as well as increased EPA funding and staffing and increased regulatory efficiency so that safe, sustainable chemistries can reach the market in a timely manner.","foreign_entity_issues":"BASF Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF SE, a European entity.","lobbyists":[{"lobbyist":{"id":104436,"prefix":null,"prefix_display":null,"first_name":"LAURA","nickname":null,"middle_name":null,"last_name":"BERKEY-AMES","suffix":null,"suffix_display":null},"covered_position":null,"new":false},{"lobbyist":{"id":56766,"prefix":null,"prefix_display":null,"first_name":"ELIZABETH","nickname":null,"middle_name":null,"last_name":"ODINA","suffix":null,"suffix_display":null},"covered_position":null,"new":false},{"lobbyist":{"id":148578,"prefix":"mr","prefix_display":"MR.","first_name":"MANUEL TYLER","nickname":null,"middle_name":null,"last_name":"JENKINS","suffix":null,"suffix_display":null},"covered_position":null,"new":true},{"lobbyist":{"id":143232,"prefix":null,"prefix_display":null,"first_name":"MICHAEL","nickname":null,"middle_name":null,"last_name":"ANDERSON","suffix":null,"suffix_display":null},"covered_position":null,"new":false}],"government_entities":[{"id":49,"name":"Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)"},{"id":2,"name":"HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES"},{"id":1,"name":"SENATE"},{"id":39,"name":"State, Dept of (DOS)"}]},{"general_issue_code":"TAX","general_issue_code_display":"Taxation/Internal Revenue Code","description":"Expiration of P.L.115-97 (Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA)). BASF supports certainty in the business tax environment and a corporate tax rate that allows an appropriate return on investment, as well as immediate R&D expensing, a more flexible standard for interest deductibility, and full expensing of capital equipment purchases. Redrafting/Revising Renewable Chemical Act (previously H.R.6532/S.4931 in 118th session). 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