Under the first five years of the quota agreement, 17 countries and the European Community were held to 18.36 percent of the United States market.

Even if the new quota agreement holds, the inflation-adjusted price of oil will remain far below the level set by OPEC in 1974.

To counter this the first voluntary reductions of production came forth, as governed by a quota agreement signed 9 June 1932.

This was seen as evidence that it wants the quota agreement reached last month by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to succeed, these specialists said.

The first is a quota agreement with UNHCR.

Another 1.1 million barrels will be allocated to the members according to the formula in the current quota agreement, which is virtually ignored.

The Government will seek immediately to renew its so-called "voluntary" quota agreements with 29 countries, scheduled to expire in September.

Iraq is a member, but it has not been included in quota agreements since it invaded Kuwait in 1990.

Brazil was guaranteed 30 percent of the coffee export market under a quota agreement that collapsed in July 1989.

The United States and more than 40 countries use quota agreements on imports to avoid the importation of too many foreign goods.