Commutation Act cuts British tea duty

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2. Parliament reduced the duty on tea from about 119 per cent to 12.5 per cent, replacing the lost revenue with a window tax. Legal tea immediately undercut the smuggled trade, which had been carrying more tea into Britain than legal imports, and consumption expanded sharply. The Act converts tea from an elite luxury into a mass commodity, and in doing so massively increases the volume Britain must buy from China — and therefore the size of the payment problem.
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4. Tea
5. English (later British) East India Company
6. Silver
7. London
8. Tea culture
9. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
10. Connections
11. Tea
12. London
13. English (later British) East India Company
14. Tea culture
15. Silver
16. Camellia sinensis
17. Silver
18. London
19. Tea Horse Road (Chamagudao)
20. Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou
21. English (later British) East India Company
22. Tea culture
23. Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
24. Tea-for-horse exchange between China and Tibet
25. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
26. Qing trade confined to Canton
27. Boston Tea Party
28. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
29. Robert Bruce shown tea growing in Assam
30. East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
31. First Assam tea auctioned in London
32. The Opium Wars
33. Treaty of Nanking
34. Tea
35. Afternoon tea
36. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
37. Boston Tea Party
38. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
39. First Assam tea auctioned in London
40. London Marathon
41. New York City
42. White City Stadium
43. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
44. The first London Marathon
45. The Great Exhibition
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47. Opium
48. Assam
49. Tea
50. Robert Fortune
51. Qing trade confined to Canton
52. Boston Tea Party
53. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
54. East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
55. Lin Zexu destroys confiscated opium at Humen
56. The Opium Wars
57. Robert Fortune removes tea plants and tea makers from China
58. Parliament bans the use of printed calicoes
59. Tea
60. Afternoon tea
61. Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
62. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
63. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
64. Tea
65. The Columbian Exchange
66. Manila
67. Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou
68. Opium
69. Qing trade confined to Canton
70. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
71. The Opium Wars
72. Treaty of Nanking
73. Potosí
74. Silver ore is registered at the Cerro Rico of Potosí
75. Manila is founded as the eastern terminus
76. Mercury amalgamation and the mita transform Potosí
77. Evidence
78. British tea duty was cut from about 119 per cent to 12.5 per cent, collapsing the smuggling trade and converting tea into a mass-consumption commodity.