The process or act of organizing companies into a cartel or the state of being organized into a cartel.
From 'cartelize' + the suffix '-ation' indicating a process or state, derived ultimately from Italian cartello.
The cartelization of the OPEC oil market in the 1970s shocked the world and demonstrated how a small group of countries could control global commodity prices and trigger economic crises.
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