The term quota refers to a portion, allocation or quota that corresponds or is given to a people, nation or even to an individual in any service, tax or loan. Specifically in the field of foreign trade, quota is that quantity or amount of a merchandise that has the possibility of being exported or imported under specific or special conditions, unlike the rest of the imports or exports of that merchandise that exceed that limit. This quota in the foreign trade environment has been used over time in international trade treaties as a preference mechanism in the trade flows of those goods of interest to each of the parties that commemorate the treaty.
On the other hand, the conjugation of the verb “caber”, cupo is used for the third person singular that is to say (he, she, you) of the indicative past tense; In other words, this word that derives from caber, which is described as the space or capacity of something in particular and the ability to enter or be contained in something else, refers then to the fraction or fragment where a whole can be contained. This meaning is normally used in countries such as Honduras, Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela and El Salvador.
We can also come across the phrase "surplus quota left", this refers to the number or accumulation of recruits assigned by a certain entity to perform the respective military service each year, or the term "excess quota" as such means, according to the rae, of the recruit who is released from military service for having corresponded in the drawing of his fifth a number that excludes him.
