Parliament bans the use of printed calicoes
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Following an earlier Act of 1700 prohibiting the import of finished Asian cottons, the 1721 Act went further and banned the use and wearing of most printed calicoes in Britain. The intended beneficiary was the woollen and silk interest, which had lobbied hard against Indian cloth landed by the East India Company. The unintended beneficiary was the infant British cotton trade, which was handed a protected home market and an incentive to make domestically what it could no longer import.
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- English (later British) East India Companyconcerns
- The British textile industryconcerns
- Raw cottonconcerns
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