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November retail sales were up 0.7 percent from October and 5 percent year over year, completing the first half of the holiday shopping season with spending on track to easily meet NRF's forecast.

NRF and more than 250 retail, restaurant and other companies from across the country are urging Congress to fix a mistake in last year’s tax reform law as part of end-of-year legislation, saying the error has put millions of dollars in job-creating remodeling projects on hold. 

Imports have set another new record, reaching 2 million containers in a single month for the first time as retailers brought merchandise into the country ahead of a now-postponed tariff increase.

Retail employment in November grew by 18,600 jobs from October, accounting for 12 percent of the 155,000-job increase economy-wide, according to NRF. The numbers exclude automobile dealers, gasoline stations and restaurants.

The NRF Foundation and the Ohio Council of Retail Merchants announced today that the Foundation’s suite of RISE Up training and credentials has been approved by the Ohio Department of Education for use in high schools and career-and-technical education centers throughout the state.

NRF responds to the Trump administration’s decision to hold off on tariff increases that were set to take effect in January 2019.  

NCCR called on the EPA to completely review the Renewable Fuel Standard, saying increased biofuel levels for 2019 meet statutory requirements for a "reset" of the program.

NRF says the new agreement updates NAFTA while continuing key benefits of the original agreement, and called for Congress to approve the measure next year.

An array of the best and brightest leaders from retail, technology and business will address the urgency of strategic business transformation, uniting the retail industry and unlocking its full impact as more than 37,000 attendees from nearly 100 countries come together in New York City in January at NRF 2019: Retail’s Big Show.

From Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday, over 165 million Americans shopped in stores and online, slightly higher than our 164 million estimated shoppers from an earlier consumer sentiment survey by NRF and Prosper Insights and Analytics.