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Duties on East India Goods Act 1707

Duties on East India Goods Act 1707

United Kingdom of Great Britain legislation (1707)

The Duties on East India Goods Act 1707[1] (6 Ann. c. 37) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.

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The Act was considered by a committee of the House of Lords on 15 December 1707, after which Lord Herbert reported that it was "fit to pass, without any Amendment", which was then done.[2] It received royal assent on 18 December 1707.[3]

The act extended the monopoly of the English East India Company across Scotland thus encompassing the whole of the new United Kingdom. Thus this corporation based in the City of London was able to enjoy a set of privileges which enabled it, rather than private British subjects, to dominate trade in half of the emerging British Empire.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Current Law Statutes. Vol. 3. Sweet & Maxwell. 1998. p. 58.
  2. [2]
    "House of Lords Journal Volume 18: 15 December 1707 | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. British History online. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  3. [3]
    Mackillop, Andrew. "A Union for Empire? Scotland, the English East India Company and the British Union". Edinburgh Scholarship Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 December 2019.


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