1.   China has agreed to lower tariffs, eliminate quotas, drop most barriers for foreign investors, and put enforcement powers into place as required by WTO rules.

2.   Developing countries have long sought to eliminate the quotas because they serve to protect apparel makers in the advanced industrial nations.

3.   Eliminating local quotas represents an attempt by Republicans to circumvent local control, Hamilton said.

4.   Gingrich said, however, that quotas should be eliminated only in the context of specific steps by the government to help all people succeed.

5.   He said tobacco companies want to eliminate quotas so they can directly contract with tobacco farmers instead of buying through auction.

6.   Insuring that will loom as one of the main issues is a planned California initiative that would eliminate quotas for contracts or government benefits.

7.   Instead, Washington signed agreements with Colombia and Costa Rica in which they agreed to lobby the European Union to eliminate the quotas.

8.   Rep. Dan Miller reintroduces a bill to eliminate sugar quotas that died in the House last session by a mere eight votes.

9.   Recent banking reforms, Chen added, are aimed at reducing politically-oriented loans, eliminating loan quotas and adopting more commercially-oriented criteria for lending.

10.   The legislation filed last week finally would eliminate quotas on textiles and clothing from Kenya and Mauritius.