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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 Urge FTC: Strengthen Consumer Safety Enforcement
- By [Michael Hanson]
- 06/26/2025
Urging FTC to Enforce INFORM Act for Retail Crime Prevention
- 06/26/2025

Why Transparency in Trade Enforcement Matters
- By [Blake Harden]
- 06/17/2025
Retail Crime Crackdown: Steps Forward, But Far from Over
- By [Sarah Gilmore]
- 06/16/2025

Leading Retailers Applaud Continued Efforts to Renew TCJA
- By [Courtney Titus Brooks]
- 06/16/2025
What Retailers Should Know About Shipbuilding Tariffs
- By [Blake Harden]
- 06/12/2025

Understanding De Minimis
- By [Blake Harden]
- 06/10/2025
Supply Chain Shifts and Port Pressures
- By [Sarah Gilmore]
- 06/09/2025

Multi-Sector Energy Star Support Letter
- 06/06/2025
What is Section 122?
- By [Blake Harden]
- 06/05/2025

RILA's Michael Hanson, RILA Public Affairs Lead, Retiring
- 06/04/2025
Retailers' Statement Ahead of Bowman Confirmation Vote
- By [Austen Jensen]
- 06/04/2025