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Leading retailers are at the heart of every community in America providing consumers with essential goods and services, stable jobs, and a legacy of volunteerism and supporting local charities. However, challenges emerge that place substantial financial burdens on retailers.
Given the common nature of these challenges across the industry, RILA pursues coordinated legislative, regulatory, and operational strategies to ensure retailers can continue to support and enhance the communities they serve.
A Deeper Look into Building Communities

Keeping Taxes Stable & Fair
RILA is urging policymakers to ensure all profitable companies pay a minimum tax before they consider raising the corporate tax rate.
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Keeping Supply Chains Open & Resilient
RILA supports infrastructure policy that invests in American growth & upgrades the nation’s aging & congested ports, highways, airports, and bridges.
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Retailers Commitments to Communities
As the trade association for America’s retail leaders, we know that retailers are so much more than a store; retailers are part of the community.
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RILA and our members support infrastructure policy that invests in American growth and upgrades the nation’s aging and congested ports, highways, airports, and bridges. We will continue to work with coalitions of likeminded organizations, including the DRIVE Safe Coalition and Americans for Modern Transportation (AMT), to advocate for modern solutions to our nation’s infrastructure challenges.
Blake Harden, Vice President, International Trade
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AI Legislation Across the U.S.: A 2025 End of Session Recap
- By [Austin Gold, Townsend Brown]
- 09/08/2025
Retailers urge Fed nominee to highlight debit rule revision
- 09/04/2025

What happens to Trump’s IEEPA tariffs if he loses in court
- By [Ellen Jackson]
- 09/03/2025
Unlocking Strategic Supply Chain Connections
- By [Jess Dankert]
- 08/11/2025

Retail Leaders Applaud Temporary Fed Nominee Stephen Miran
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 08/07/2025
Retailers applaud court’s rejection of flawed rule
- By [Deborah White]
- 08/07/2025

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- By [Jess Dankert]
- 07/30/2025
Major railway merger: What it means for retail supply chains
- By [Jess Dankert]
- 07/30/2025

How Retailers Are Navigating a Turbulent Trade Environment
- By [Jess Dankert]
- 07/16/2025
Retailers urge House passage of bipartisan GENIUS Act
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 07/15/2025

RILA Urges Swift Passage of the Combatting Organized Retail Crime Act
- By [Sarah Gilmore]
- 07/14/2025
Immigration Landscape Midyear Review
- By [Austin Gold]
- 07/09/2025