trade association
Sector advocacy group
A trade association is an organization of businesses in the same industry that promotes shared interests.
Members pool resources for lobbying, setting standards, and sharing information: the American Petroleum Institute, the National Restaurant Association.
Trade associations advocate for favorable regulations and serve as the collective voice of an industry.
- chamber of commerceOrganization representing local businesses
- industryEconomic production sector
- antitrustAgainst corporate market dominance
- lobbyingAdvocating to decision-makers
- special interestOrganized advocacy faction
industry standards · best practices · code of ethics · conference · annual meeting · members · networking · consortium · sector · advocacy group · organization · economic development · dues · brotherhood · policy · convention · chapter · chamber
- business groupschamber of commerce, industry groups, business alliance, chambers of commerce, business councils
- Business Networksnetworking group, referral network, alumni network, chamber of commerce, LinkedIn
- consortiumsconsortium, syndicate, cartel, joint venture, conglomerate
- professional organizationsunions, professional society, guilds, syndicates, chambers of commerce
- trade organizationschamber of commerce, customs union, common market, guild, cartel
- commercebanking, merchant, imports, sales, exports
trade associationlabor union
Collective bargaining group
trade union · craft union · industrial union · guild · organized labor
trade associationregulatory agency
Government entity enforcing rules
consumer protection agency · oversight body · public interest group
trade, trader, trading, association, associated, traded, associates, traders, associating