Baku - APA-Economics. A US congressman who has been advising Donald Trump on energy policy is leading a plan to investigate OPEC, the oil producers' cartel, for unfair trade practices, The Financial Times reported.
Kevin Cramer, a Republican member of the House of Representatives for the oil-producing state of North Dakota, said the US needed to examine whether the cartel was acting anti-competitively to strengthen its hold over the market, because of the importance of energy to national security.
OPEC has been riven by disagreements over the past couple of years and is seen by analysts as having lost its influence over the market. However, concern about the cartel has grown in the US as a result of the collapse in oil prices, which has driven more than 130 US companies into bankruptcy and cost 131,000 jobs.
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