The trade cartel is a formal, economic and legal business relationship between two or more merchants, each of whom shares similar short or long-term goals. The structure of the merchant alliance can include joint ventures, franchises, joint licensing, joint marketing, and joint manufacturing. Although there are advantages and disadvantages of strategic alliances, they generally enable the trader to achieve his goals more quickly than if he were seeking to achieve his goal alone, and in front of these advantages of business alliances, there are disadvantages represented by the control of a particular alliance over the markets; Which reduces competition in the framework of the commercial market, and then the commercial alliance controls the prices of goods and services, so the laws in developed countries, led by the United States of America, tended to combat trade alliances that lead to the dissolution of competition within the framework of the commercial environment, through a legal system It is called the laws of the (Internet), but the matter in Iraq remained far from regulation, even the Iraqi Competition and Prevention of Monopoly Law No. (14) for the year 2010 was not sufficient to the extent that preserves the competitive atmosphere within the framework of the commercial market, which requires finding a regulation for these alliances along the lines of what is found In the United States of America, trade alliances, and one of the most effective means to achieve this is to enter into a trade alliance, as the trade alliance, also known
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