English (later British) East India Company
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The East India Company was an English chartered joint-stock company, founded in 1600, that became a territorial power in South Asia and the sole legal British importer of Chinese tea. Its China trade ran through Canton, was recorded in the factory records now held in the India Office Records at the British Library, and its monopoly on the China trade was ended by Parliament in 1834. Because tea duty was a major source of British revenue, the Company's tea account was effectively a fiscal instrument of the state. It was also the institution that organised opium production in Bengal, and that commissioned Robert Fortune to remove tea plants and processing knowledge from China.
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