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With oil prices this high I can't see OPEC cutting production. It's clear they won't change the quotas. Prices aren't going to fall a lot anytime soon.

Sarah Emerson

The move would ensure fair play among Chinese exporters, help better manage their performance, and optimize the use of export quotas.

Cao Xinyu

Our recommendation is that there should be no trade at all until these quotas are published. We need clarification on the size of the stock and the quotas being proposed.

David Morgan

If the quotas are eliminated, we expect a large shift in textiles and apparel production to China.

Daniel Barry

We're trying to get (commercial fishermen) out of only fishing 10 days and into quotas, so they can fish whenever they want to.

Rick Leard

I expect both the UN and Iran not to want a confrontation, and therefore we don't get any clear decision on any action toward Iran at Monday's meeting at the IAEA. OPEC will keep their quotas unchanged at Wednesday's meeting due to the high crude prices.

Anette Einarsen

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Clarence Thomas

The negative effect of textile export quotas imposed by the US and Europe has been evident since August last year. Now China is again being accused of dumping iron products and shoes in the same countries, so new anti-dumping quotas may be imposed soon.

Daniel Chan

It's very difficult to have quotas for women because you have to be careful how they're evaluated and how the public views that as well.

Michelle Ryan

We will never have quotas in this city as long as I am mayor, but we will darn sure have goals.

Alan Autry

The increased domestic demand has driven the price of Chinese corn higher, both domestically and throughout Asia . Coupled with [Friday]'s report that China will issue no new export quotas beyond March 1, this is exceptionally good news for U.S. grain producers, who compete in those same international markets.

Mike Callahan

Developed countries should be aware that textile integration is an inevitable trend and to have quotas is not correct.

Bo Xilai

It is not about quotas; it is about a system that is fair.

Sandra Parga

In the past, they had pretty good quotas for salmon. They let people fish, the more ice we sell.

Joe Marques

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

Gunther Grass

We're completely opposed to ethnic quotas, in the sense it will push people to identify themselves to a particular community. One of the biggest strengths of France is the fact that issues of ethnicity and religiosity are extremely porous -- as you can see with the very mixed population that exists in France.

Dominique Sopo

Since 27 categories of textiles are under restriction investigation compared to nine for which quotas have been set, the loss will be bigger.

Sun Huaibin

Oil resources and supplies are plentiful and OPEC has been producing 1.5 million more barrels per day than its quotas in the third quarter of 2005.

Sheikh Ahmad

OPEC would like to see lower prices and is doing what it can. The OPEC ministers left open the prospect of a rollback in quotas at the March meeting.

John Kilduff

The quotas had been met. There was nothing we could do about it. The assets of major-league baseball clubs are their players. If we can't get a guy into the game here, that's a waste of money — and of major consequence to us as a team and to him as an individual.

Benny Looper

As soon as the chief found out about it, he put a stop to it. The chief does not support quotas. He did the right thing.

James Fitzgerald

We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quotas, but it's flowing much more smoothly from the ships to the stores than we saw in 2004.

Erik Autor

Everyone is wondering whether the increased quotas will translate into actual new production. Many members of OPEC don't have excess production capacity.

Ed Maran