quota system

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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

Execution risks remain, as does uncertainty surrounding the U.S. tariff quota system, Deutsche adds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

That year also witnessed the death of 85-year-old former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and the passage of the Hart-Celler Immigration Act that abolished the xenophobic quota system put in place in the 1920s.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 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