Can someone please explain why all the Oil Producers sitting around a table agreeing to cut back production to raise prices is not a cartel.?

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Surely it would be considered an anti-competitive collusion?

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It is a cartel. The whole point of it is anti-competitive collusion to maintain oil prices.

But there is no enforceable law against sovereign countries colluding with each other.