export quota

Cultural  

1. A restriction imposed by a government on the amount or number of goods or services that may be exported within a given period, usually with the intent of keeping prices of those goods or services low for domestic users.

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Example Sentences

China’s Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group announced this week that it had secured a six-month export quota for lithium concentrates from Zimbabwe, just two months after the African country banned exports of raw lithium.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

But the measures had a limited impact: a ban on the buckwheat exports, not a major export, and a wheat export quota of 22 million tons in 2019-20 that was in line with expected exports.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2020

There is at least a 7 percent cut in the released 2011 export quota compared with 2010 after taking the new material into account, it said.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 15, 2011

China's export quota cut for rare earth minerals for the first half of 2011 was initially reported on Tuesday as about 11 percent of quotas for the first half of 2010.

From Reuters • Dec. 29, 2010

What's the story on this export quota request from Durendal?

From Ministry of Disturbance by Dongen, H. R. van