1.   Five countries maintained national quotas on imports of Japanese cars.

2.   Arrieta declined to comment on whether the current OPEC production quota would be maintained at the November meeting.

3.   Members muttered about maintaining quotas on gun seizures and arrests.

4.   The decision would make it easier to maintain quotas for women, she added.

5.   The government maintained quotas on imports that had long served to protect politically powerful American producers by limiting cheaper and more plentiful foreign oil.

6.   The other proposal would maintain quotas, with modifications.

7.   Under the rules of the Geneva-based trade arbiter, countries running excessive trade gaps can maintain import quotas.

8.   But to maintain these quotas, Bangladesh has to control prices.

9.   It also maintained duty-free quotas on grain and sugar and reduced duties on some agricultural products.

10.   The accord will give the central Asian state most favoured nation status on commercial exchanges but maintain quotas on imports to the EU.