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Beijing controls how much crude they can buy through annual quotas that have mostly been used up this year.

The fallout is bad news for auto makers such as General Motors and Stellantis, which have enjoyed a quota of tariff-free exports to Canada, even though the stocks haven’t reacted much early Friday.

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The government and the mayor of London have agreed to change the quota for the amount of affordable housing for new developments in London from 35% to 20%.

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In 2012, the Obama administration, alongside the European Union and Japan, launched a suit against China at the World Trade Organization, accusing it of improperly using export quotas to restrict rare-earth supplies abroad.

The protests started in July 2024 against civil service job quotas for relatives of those who fought in the 1971 war but soon escalated into a mass movement to overthrow Hasina.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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