Why It Matters Volvo Car Corp. filed its first-quarter 2026 in-house lobbying disclosure on May 4, reporting $400,000 in lobbying expenditures. The filing lists a single lobbyist, Katie Yehl, but discloses no specific issues or legislation. Volvo faces an unusual convergence of policy threats to its U.S. business. A Commerce Department rule targeting connected vehicles linked to Chinese-owned companies took effect in March 2025, putting Volvo's U.S. market access at risk given its majority ownership by China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. Separately, the administration's 25% auto import tariffs have already hit Volvo's bottom line, forcing the company to withdraw its financial guidance for both 2025 and 2026. The lobbying activity reflects a company navigating significant regulatory and trade pressure on multiple fronts simultaneously. By the Numbers The first-quarter 2026 filing is one of two disclosures Volvo filed this quarter. The second, filed by outside firm Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid LLC, covers a broader set of issues with five lobbyists. The in-house filing reflects only Yehl's activity. Volvo's in-house lobbying spend has held steady at $365,000 per quarter going back to at least early 2024, before ticking up to $400,000 in the fourth quarter of 2025, a level maintained in this filing. Total in-house spending tracked through Yehl since April 2024 amounts to $3,355,000 across nine filings. Yehl has no congressional staff record in available databases, though she has been the sole in-house lobbyist on all Volvo filings in this dataset. The Agenda The first-quarter 2026 in-house filing lists no specific issues and no legislation. It is blank on both counts. The companion filing from Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid, however, covers a range of topics Volvo has consistently lobbied on, including clean energy technology, autonomous vehicles, international trade and tariffs, transportation technology, and the AM Radio for Every Vehicle