orderly marketing agreement

American  

noun

1. any of various formal arrangements by which the volume of certain imported commodities, as steel or textiles, is voluntarily reduced. OMA

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Example Sentences

Although they have negotiated an "orderly marketing agreement" limiting sales of Japanese color TVs in the U.S., the President and his aides are concentrating not on buying less from Japan but on selling more to it.

From Time Magazine Archive