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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
Discover How Retail Builds Communities
Retailers Praise Progress on CCCA in Senate Agriculture Markup
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 01/23/2026
Supply Chain Signals: What We’re Watching in 2026
- By [Jess Dankert]
- 01/20/2026
Letter on Proposed NMED Regulations to Implement NM HB 212
- 01/13/2026
Retailers Urge Passage of Credit Card Competition Act
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 01/13/2026
RILA Statement on House Judiciary Mark-Up on CORCA
- By [Sarah Gilmore]
- 01/13/2026
Retailers Applaud House Passage of Trade Bills
- By [Sung Chang]
- 01/12/2026
Retail Litigation Center Adds 3 GCs to Board of Directors
- By [Monica Welt]
- 01/05/2026
Retailers urge Congress to address penny crisis in new year
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 12/22/2025
State of Trade 2025: How Retailers Can Ride Changing Tides
- By [Sung Chang]
- 12/22/2025
Retailers Object to Credit Card Settlement
- 12/17/2025
RILA Members Testify for CORCA to Combat Criminal Networks
- By [Sarah Gilmore]
- 12/16/2025
Retailers back Trade Review Act of 2025
- By [Sung Chang]
- 12/16/2025