Retail CEOs Head to Washington to Fight Proposed Border Tax

[Target Marketing’s note: Marketing a steep price increase may not be a challenge these retail, consumer electronics and auto marketers want. Marking up a $100 item to $117 is a foreseeable brand crisis.]

Chief executives of some of the country’s largest retailers, including Target, Gap, Best Buy and Autozone, headed to Washington, D.C. yesterday to make their case that a controversial tax on imports would raise consumer prices and hurt their businesses, according to people familiar with the plan. The

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