voluntary export restraint

noun [C] (abbreviation VER, also voluntary export restriction, voluntary restraint agreement) COMMERCE

Definition

› an agreement between two countries that limits the number of goods of a particular type that one of the countries can sell to the other: Voluntary export restrictions remain on Japan's car exports to the European Union.

(Definition of voluntary export restraint noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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