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OECD CompStats / enforcement industry profile

Retail trade

Follow reported cartel and dominance decisions by industry from 2021 to 2024. Classifications, years, and denominators remain attached; activity counts do not measure the prevalence of harm.

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Cartel decisions
29
rank 5 / 20 · 2021
Dominance decisions
6
rank 7 / 20 · 2021
Published window
2021–2024
8 exact category rows
Source label
Retail Trade
metric-specific text preserved from the release
One releaseOECD CompStats 2025
Exact yearsNo interpolation or carry-forward
Two measuresKept separate throughout
No performance scoreActivity counts only

Industry activity workspace

Same-year position, exact category path

Focus on one published year and one ordering measure without merging the cartel and dominance series.

Same-year activity plane

Cartel and dominance decisions, 2021

20 categories / independent axes
Retail trade among 20 OECD industry categories in 2021Horizontal position shows published cartel infringement decisions and vertical position shows published abuse of dominance infringement decisions. The selected industry is highlighted. This is a descriptive activity plane, not a performance or harm score.002512.550257537.510050Cartel infringement decisionsDominance infringement decisionsAccommodation and food services: 7 cartel decisions, 3 dominance decisionsAdministrative, support, waste management, and remediation services: 16 cartel decisions, 3 dominance decisionsAgriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting: 10 cartel decisions, 7 dominance decisionsArts, entertainment, and recreation: 3 cartel decisions, 1 dominance decisionsConstruction: 68 cartel decisions, 3 dominance decisionsEducational services: 6 cartel decisions, 0 dominance decisionsFinance and insurance: 19 cartel decisions, 4 dominance decisionsHealth care and social assistance: 13 cartel decisions, 5 dominance decisionsInformation: 20 cartel decisions, 28 dominance decisionsManagement of companies and enterprises: 1 cartel decisions, 1 dominance decisionsManufacturing: 72 cartel decisions, 22 dominance decisionsMining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction: 3 cartel decisions, 2 dominance decisionsOther services except public administration: 11 cartel decisions, 6 dominance decisionsProfessional, scientific, and technical services: 22 cartel decisions, 5 dominance decisionsPublic administration: 5 cartel decisions, 3 dominance decisionsReal estate rental and leasing: 7 cartel decisions, 1 dominance decisionsRetail trade: 29 cartel decisions, 6 dominance decisionsTransportation and warehousing: 38 cartel decisions, 13 dominance decisionsUtilities: 5 cartel decisions, 9 dominance decisionsWholesale trade: 59 cartel decisions, 13 dominance decisionsRetail trade
Horizontal: cartel decisionsVertical: dominance decisionsPosition does not encode enforcement quality or harm.

Focus-year ordering

Cartel decisions, 2021

Ties share a rank · alphabetical order within equal values
  1. 01Manufacturing7217.4%
  2. 02Construction6816.4%
  3. 03Wholesale trade5914.3%
  4. 04Transportation and warehousing389.18%
  5. 05Retail trade297.00%
  6. 06Professional, scientific, and technical services225.31%
  7. 07Information204.83%
  8. 08Finance and insurance194.59%
  9. 09Administrative, support, waste management, and remediation services163.86%
  10. 10Health care and social assistance133.14%
  11. 11Other services except public administration112.66%
  12. 12Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting102.42%
  13. 13Accommodation and food services71.69%
  14. 13Real estate rental and leasing71.69%
  15. 15Educational services61.45%
  16. 16Public administration51.21%
  17. 16Utilities51.21%
  18. 18Arts, entertainment, and recreation30.72%
  19. 18Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction30.72%
  20. 20Management of companies and enterprises10.24%

Exact category trajectories

2021–2024 published paths

Each panel uses a fixed all-industry metric scale.
Cartel decisions

29

2021 · rank 5 / 20
0 since 2021
01092182021: 29 decisions20212022: 34 decisions20222023: 123 decisions20232024: 44 decisions2024
First: 29Published share: 7.00%
Dominance decisions

6

2021 · rank 7 / 20
0 since 2021
042.5852021: 6 decisions20212022: 9 decisions20222023: 3 decisions20232024: 6 decisions2024
First: 6Published share: 4.44%

Exact source ledger

Eight published category observations

YearCartel decisionsCartel rankDominance decisionsDominance rankCartel source labelDominance source label
2021295 / 2067 / 20Retail TradeRetail Trade
2022344 / 2095 / 20Retail TradeRetail Trade
20231232 / 20311 / 20Retail TradeRetail Trade
2024444 / 2067 / 20Retail TradeRetail Trade
Interpretation boundary

Industry counts classify published cartel and abuse-of-dominance infringement decisions. They do not measure market concentration, competitive harm, industry size, enforcement quality, deterrence, legal correctness, consumer welfare, or causal effects.

Source custody

A Decade of OECD Competition Trends, Data and Insights

Antitrust Radar preserves the OECD source industry label and publishes each metric-year row without interpolation. Categories describe the release classification and are not declared legal antitrust markets.

Publisher
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Source review
2026-07-24
Category rows
8
Universe
20 industries

Canonical category dossiers

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One source classification · two measures · four exact years
01Accommodation and food servicesAccomodation and food services02Administrative, support, waste management, and remediation servicesAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services03Agriculture, forestry, fishing and huntingAgriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting04Arts, entertainment, and recreationArts, Entertainment and Recreation05ConstructionConstruction06Educational servicesEducational Services07Finance and insuranceFinance and Insurance08Health care and social assistanceHealth Care and Social Assistance09InformationInformation10Management of companies and enterprisesManagement of Companies and Enterprises11ManufacturingManufacturing12Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extractionMining, Quarrying and Oil/Gas Extraction / Mining13Other services except public administrationOther Services (except Public Administration)14Professional, scientific, and technical servicesProfessional, Scientific and Technical Services15Public administrationPublic Administration16Real estate rental and leasingReal Estate Rental and Leasing17Retail tradeRetail Trade18Transportation and warehousingTransportation and Warehousing19UtilitiesUtilities20Wholesale tradeWholesale Trade
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