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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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Best Buy CEO Corie Barry to Chair RILA Board of Directors
- By [Brian Dodge]
- 01/30/2023
It’s not the Headline, it’s the Bottom Line
- By [Brian Dodge]
- 01/27/2023

Negative Impact of Sec. 301 Tariffs on Consumers, Businesses
- By [Blake Harden]
- 01/17/2023
USTR Should Abandon Unsuccessful & Harmful Tariff Policy
- By [Blake Harden]
- 01/17/2023

Retail Works for All of Us
- By [Austen Jensen, Michael Hanson]
- 01/12/2023
Congress Passes Law Targeting ORC: Now What?
- By [Lisa LaBruno, Michael Hanson]
- 01/11/2023

Battling ORC: Huge Win for Retailers, Workers, Consumers
- By [Michael Hanson]
- 12/20/2022
Congress Can Protect Consumers in Omnibus Package
- 12/16/2022

2022 Election Impact on ESG Issues
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 12/06/2022
Strike Averted: Retailers Cheers Swift Congressional Action
- By [Sarah Gilmore]
- 12/01/2022

All-Star Lineup Announced for LINK2023
- By [Jess Dankert]
- 12/01/2022
Retailers Talk DEI Accountability, 2023 Strategy
- By [Erin Hiatt, Moni Adeyi]
- 11/30/2022