tea trade
Camellia sinensis business
The tea trade is the commercial exchange of tea between producing and consuming regions.
Historically, it shaped global economics and colonial relationships—the British East India Company's tea monopoly famously sparked the Boston Tea Party.
Today the term covers the international business of buying, selling, and transporting tea: The tea trade connects Sri Lankan plantations with London auction houses.
- export tariffsTaxes on outbound goods
- duty freeExempt from customs levies
- first flushEarliest surge or onset
- loose leafPages without permanent binding
- Camellia sinensisBinomial for tea shrub
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- Asian ColonialismBritish Raj, British India, Dutch East Indies, French Indochina, East India Company
- historical tradebarter, Silk Road, bartering, barter system, marketplaces
- Tang Chinacourt music, court dance, imperial exam, civil service exams, pagodas
- Eastern tradebazaar, souk, merchant, trader, caravan
- East AsiaChina, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Korea
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