Formal price-fixing by cartel and informal price-fixing by agreements covering the members of an industry are commonplace.

通过卡特尔进行的正式价格垄断，以及通过涵盖行业成员的协议进行的非正式价格垄断，都是司空见惯的。

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The cartel requested a study on the effect of invoicing oil in an alternative currency, and an OPEC committee proposed using a basket of currencies to price the commodity.

欧佩克要求对采用另一种货币进行石油结算的影响进行研究，欧佩克一个下属委员会提出用一篮子货币对石油定价。

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In effect, the agreement creates a legally sanctioned cartel for digital-book rights that could artificially inflate the price of library subscriptions.

实际上，协议将创立一个法律认可的数字图书版权企业联盟，人为地抬高图书馆订阅费。

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It was because the world cartel backing the price went bankrupt.

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Profitability in vitamins has suffered since the European Commission broke up an international price-fixing cartel in which Roche was a leading figure.

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That would give the cartel more power to determine the price.

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