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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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