Saddled with a lot of debt and even bigger inventories, the East India Company needed to unload a lot of tea. So Parliament lowered the tax on company-owned tea and let the company undercut the ...

The East India Company placed its first order for tea in 1664 – it could only be bought from China at the time and the Company had a monopoly. It quickly became the Englishman’s afternoon ...

The crisis revived only when Parliament resolved to dump the tea of the ailing East India Company on colonial markets. Seizing on this pretext, a minority of determined patriots rekindled the ...

This familiar question makes it hard for us to imagine that in Britain, tea was once considered an exotic novelty. Imported by sea from China by the East India Company, tea was one of the 'new ...

[to Tea seller] Can I have a single tea ... quick to respond to the consumers' changing tastes. Speaker 3: The East India Company would report back regularly after every shipment to Britain ...