A cartel is a tight organization based on a formal agreement among commercial enterprises with conflicting interests.

Cartel may also refer to:

Various cartels[edit]

• Cartel, adopted from Dutch language Kartel (electoral alliance), a public and formal electoral alliance between political parties (hence, cartel parties)
• Cartel party theory, evaluates influences among state and political parties (hence, cartel parties)
• Drug cartel, a drug trafficking organization (the article lists specific cartels)
• State cartel theory, addresses international relations formed by states (hence, cartel states)
• Cartel (intergovernmental agreement)

Music[edit]

Groups and labels[edit]

• Cartel (band), an American pop punk band
• Cartel (rap group), a Turkish hip hop group
• The Cartel (record distributor), a network of record distributors in the UK

Albums[edit]

• Cartel (Cartel album), the band's self-titled album
• Cartel (hip hop album), a German 1995 compilation album

Film[edit]

• Cartel (web series), a 2021 webseries on ALTBalaji
• Cartels (film), a 2017 action film starring Steven Seagal
• The Cartel, a 2010 documentary film by Bob Bowdon that covers the failures of public education in the United States by focusing on New Jersey

Other uses[edit]

• Cartel (concept), an ambiguous concept, which usually refers to a combination or agreement between rivals
• Cartel (intergovernmental agreement), spread throughout the 17th to 19th centuries in the Western world
• Cartel (ship), a vessel engaged in a humanitarian voyage, such as the exchange of prisoners
• Galindo cartel, a cartel that figured largely in Sons of Anarchy (season 4) and the spinoff series Mayans M.C.
• The Cartel, a professional-wrestling stable in the Global Wrestling Federation in the 1990s
• cartel - historically, a written letter of defiance or challenge

See also[edit]

• Cartell, an Irish vehicle checking company
• El Cartel (disambiguation)
• Kartel (disambiguation)
• Kartellen, Swedish gangsta-rap and hip hop formation