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
The U.A.E. was OPEC’s third-largest producer and has in recent years wanted to boost its output beyond levels allowed by the cartel’s quota system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 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
A quota system would allow the UK to sell a certain number of cars into the US under low or zero tariffs, with extra charges on vehicles above that quota.
From BBC ● May 8, 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
