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| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | A trade barrier that sets the maximum quantity (quantitative restriction) or value of a commodity allowed to enter a country during a specified time period. The Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture requires the conversion of import quotas and other quantitative restrictions to tariff-rate quotas and/or bound tariff rates. (references) |
Economics | A protective device establishing limits on the quantity of a particular product that may be imported into a country. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: IMPORT QUOTA |
| Specialty definitions using "IMPORT QUOTA": Domestic price ♦ Limited global quota for upland cotton ♦ Recourse loan program ♦ Sugar price support program. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | West Bank | They enjoy jointly a 4,000 mt duty-free import quota for frozen salt water fish from the U.S. In spite of this, only five percent of all frozen salt water fish imports are of U.S. origin. (references) |
Bulgaria | Obstacles in this market include high import duties for U.S. chicken (between 68 to 74 percent) as well as the duty free import quota for EU exporters of 2,000 MT in CY 2000. The EU's duty free quota will increase by 10 percent annually. (references) | |
Political Economy | MALAYSIA | Import Restrictions on Motor Vehicles: Malaysia maintains several measures to protect the local automobile industry, including high tariffs and an import quota and licensing system on imported motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts. (references) |
Trade | Japan | Import quota items also require an import license, usually valid for four months from the date of issuance. (references) |
Brazil | However, in May 1995 the Brazilian Government returned to the import quota system and presently only imports of wheat and petroleum are not subject to quotas. (references) | |
Brazil | Law No. 8387 of December 30, 1991, modified the regulations for the Manaus Free Trade Zone by eliminating the previously existing import quota and requiring only that prior notification is made to the Superintendent of the Manaus Free Zone (SUFRAMA). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
import quota steel | 9 |
import quota | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "IMPORT QUOTA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | θΌΈε ₯ε²γε½"γ¦εΆεΊ¦ (an import quota system), θΌΈε ₯ε²γε½"γ¦εΆ (an import quota system). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | γγ«γ γγγγγ¦γγγ© (an import quota system), γγ«γ γγγγγ¦γγ (an import quota system). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | importay otaquay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-o-o-p-q-r-t-t-u" | |
-4 letters: outport, patriot, protium, quittor, taproom, taproot, tritoma. | |
-5 letters: armpit, atrium, impart, import, optima, potato, prutot, quarto, tomato, uproot, utopia. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4D 50 4F 52 54 51 55 4F 54 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001101 01010000 01001111 01010010 01010100 00100000 01010001 01010101 01001111 01010100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I M P O R T   Q U O T A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004D 0050 004F 0052 0054 0051 0055 004F 0054 0041 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43475049525425155495435 |
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