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quota
noun as in portion allotted to something
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The European Union’s top trade officials are proposing a 50% tariff on steel imports above a certain quota as the bloc moves to shield its struggling sector from overcapacity.
Simultaneously, broad nativist fear of immigrants, and their labor, led to 1921 and 1924 acts creating restrictive quota systems basically eliminating immigration from anywhere but northwest Europe and the New World.
The move builds on earlier decisions by the Vienna-based cartel to unwind a layer of production quota curbs totaling roughly 1.65 million barrels a day, which was first implemented in 2023.
However, there were no quotas for female lawmakers, nor for those from the country's many ethnic and religious minorities.
But there were no minimum quotas for female lawmakers, nor for those from the country's many ethnic and religious minorities.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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