Voluntary Restraint Agreement

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An agreement between two or more countries in which each limits exports to the other. While this reduces trade between the counties involved, it can help domestic industries and, in any event, can reduce tensions because fewer workers in the involved countries may be worried about outsourcing.

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Voluntary Export Restraint			had to resort to a complicated trigger price mechanism to fend off foreign competition and in the 1980s to negotiating voluntary restraint agreements with our trading partners to avoid pursuing antidumping cases against them. Steel--one vicious circle. (Straight Talk) by Modic, Stan / Tooling & Production When the Voluntary Restraint Agreement took effect, Japanese builders were held to quotas set according to their existing market share. How bankruptcy of Japan's Niigata Engineering affects its M-T unit by Metalworking Insiders' Report steelmakers' market share, union and management linked arms to pursue a protectionist strategy, persuading government to adopt Voluntary Restraint Agreements and other measures designed to limit steel imports. The Rise, Fall and Replacement of Industrywide Bargaining in the ... by Reynolds, Joy K. / Monthly Labor Review			Volumen operado Voluntary Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance Voluntary Accumulation Plan voluntary alienation Voluntary Arrangement Voluntary Bankruptcy Voluntary Compensation Endorsement Voluntary Compliance Voluntary Conveyance Voluntary Deductible Employee Contribution Plan Voluntary Deferral Plan Voluntary Employees Beneficiary Association Voluntary Exchange Voluntary Export Restraint Voluntary Government Insurance Voluntary Import Expansion Voluntary Insurance voluntary lien Voluntary Life Insurance Voluntary Liquidation Voluntary Payroll Deduction Plan Voluntary Plan Voluntary Plan Termination Voluntary Redundancy Voluntary Reserve Voluntary Restraint Agreement Voluntary Termination Voluntary Trust Voluntary Unemployment Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Volunteer Protection Act of 1997 Voodoo Accounting Voodoo Economics Vorschuss Vorstand Vostro Account Votacion por poder Vote Vote par procuration Voting Certificate Voting Instruction Card Voting Right Voting Rights Voting Stock Voting Trust Voting Trust Agreement Voting Trust Certificate Voto por procuracao Voucher Voucher Check Voucher Register			Voluntary Public School Choice Voluntary Qualified Importer Program Voluntary Recall to Active Duty Voluntary Recruitment Voluntary Reduction in Force Voluntary Reduction in Work Schedule Voluntary Reduction of Force Voluntary Redundancies Voluntary redundancy Voluntary redundancy Voluntary Refusal of Food & Fluid Voluntary Regional Waste Group Voluntary Register of Clinical Technologists voluntary relinquishment Voluntary Remain on Active Duty Voluntary Remedial Action Program Voluntary Remediation and Redevelopment Act Voluntary Repatriation Center Voluntary Rescue Service Recognition Voluntary Reserve Voluntary Reserves Voluntary Resettlement Agency Voluntary Response Action Plan Voluntary Response Action Program Voluntary Restraint Voluntary Restraint Agreement Voluntary Restraint Agreements voluntary retailer Voluntary Retirement Incentive Plan Voluntary Retirement Scheme Voluntary Return to Active Duty Voluntary Safety Information Sharing Voluntary sale Voluntary Scrapie Flock Certification Program Voluntary sector Voluntary Sector Advisory Committee Voluntary Sector Advisory Committee on Employment Voluntary Sector Evaluation Research Project Voluntary Sector Initiative for Professional Development Voluntary Sector Knowledge Network Voluntary Sector Legal Handbook Voluntary Sector Liaison Committee Voluntary Sector Liaison Group Voluntary Sector National Training Organisation Voluntary Sector North West Voluntary Sector Partnership Council Voluntary Sector Refugee Network-East of England Voluntary Sector Resource Agency Voluntary Sector Steering Group Voluntary Sector Studies Network

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