That lobbying work ended with the Trump administration. A PI review of disclosures shows the company registered its first federal lobbyists in 2019, retaining Ballard Partners and Alston & Bird to work on tariff and trade policy in response to then-President Donald Trump’s trade wars. Balsam Brands is still relatively new to the lobbying game. Earl Pomeroy and Evan Collier of Alston & Bird began lobbying for the popular purveyor of artificial trees at the end of September, shelling out $40,000 for a little over a week’s worth of lobbying at the end of the quarter, according to newly filed disclosures.

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