The Trade Federation was a very powerful CIS commerce guild, trade cartel, megacorporation, and lobbying group that was founded in 350 BBY[12] as an association of business and trade groups with its own commercial trade fleet. The Federation grew to dominate entire star systems and all major trade routes, and possessed a formidable private military. Toward the end of the Republic, it would become increasingly dominated by the commerce-savvy Neimoidians. The Federation played a major role in the Multiverse War for its allegiance to the Confederacy of Independent Systems.