quota system
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Indonesia is also buying more panels, though generous energy subsidies and a strict quota system give consumers little incentive to switch.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
India also has a large number of “tribals,” who are outside the caste system but part of the quota system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
A helpful program note by dramaturg Adrian Trujillo Centeno explains that the law eliminated “the national origins quota system that had favored Northern and Western Europeans since the 1920s.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
However, the EU Commission president has also suggested that Brussels and Washington remain in talks about a quota system, whereby EU steel exports under the quota would also be subject to a lower rate.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2025
The quota system has worked for over two hundred years, and although it fluctuates region to region, it makes it crystal clear what each scythe’s responsibility to the world is.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
