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The group's president Kevin Dempsey said the moved closed a system of exemptions, exclusions and quotas that allowed foreign producers to avoid tariffs.

She explains that affirmative action involves quotas, while positive action encourages participation without preferential treatment, such as through scholarships or mentoring.

“I’m old enough to remember when quotas existed in the U.S. for the purpose of discrimination. And I don’t want to see that happen again,” Ronald Reagan said during his reelection campaign in 1980.

It should be noted that hiring quotas based on race or gender were not then and are not now part of affirmative action employment programs in the United States.

"This boat should have left a week earlier, but it had not caught its lobster quota. Otherwise, things would have gotten complicated."