Sugar prices are kept high by Government support programs and import quotas.

For a limited number of products, annual import quotas remain in effect.

So why do countries use import quotas instead of always using a tariff?

So governments have to set the import quota at a reasonable level.

The participant countries set up common external trade policy, but in some cases they use different import quotas.

Import quotas should keep foreign steelmakers at bay, he said.

We can come to an agreement with regard to imports and import quotas.

President Bush authorized a large increase in this year's peanut import quota.

"It's a real pain to get import quotas for France.

In addition, pressure is rising to roll back import quotas and price supports.

Thus government revenue is the same under such an import quota and a tariff.

Import quotas are not necessarily designed to protect domestic producers.

Strict import quotas on Chinese goods should also be introduced, so as to protect jobs in our countries.

Also the Ming administration often issued extremely low import quotas for trade.

Under the new textile agreement, the Mexican import quota would rise by 6 percent a year for the next four years.

It said this translated into about $120,000 for each job protected by the three voluntary import quotas.

Q. Do you expect steel consumers to fight import quotas when the administration presents its case?

Note also that with both the import quotas, the increase in the domestic firms' profits was substantial.

The economic reform program by the government in 1989 lifted import quotas and opened some exports to the private sector.

At the beginning of the 19th century, trade in Britain was still subject to import quotas, price ceilings and other state interventions.

Locating abroad is also a way to avoid import quotas and other trade barriers.

Import quotas: To reduce the quantity and therefore increase the market price of imported goods.

The country also adopted protectionist policies such as import quotas, which a number of European countries did during the time period.

Import quotas would convert all of our trading partners from raiders into builders.

Japanese cars are subject to France's stiff import quotas, which limit them to 3 percent of the domestic market.