quota system

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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

Faced with rising competitors in the 1980s, it introduced its famous quota system that enabled it to exert more control over the market.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 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

For decades, the US, European Union and Canada had in place a quota system that reserved a certain share of their markets for developing countries like Sri Lanka.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 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