Acts of Trade and Navigation

Acts of Trade and Navigation

Acts of Trade and Navigation

Navigation Acts was passed by the English Parliament in the 17th and 18th centuries to promote and protect English industry and commerce against foreign competition. The acts were sometimes called Acts of Trade and Navigation. The Navigation Act of 1651 ordered that goods imported or exported by English colonies in Africa, Asia, or America be shipped on vessels constructed by English shipbuilders and sailed by crews that were 75 percent English. Goods imported from the colonies into England also had to arrive on English vessels. Goods from foreign countries were restricted to vessels from the exporting nation or to English Manolo Blahnik ships. The term English referred to individual nationality and not to place of residence, and the colonists and colonial shipping were considered English. The act of 1660 specified certain goods principally tobacco, rice, and indigo that the colonists could export only to another English colony or to England. Later laws such as the Woolens Act of 1699, the Hat Act of 1732, and the Iron Act of 1750 were attempts to prevent manufacturing in the British colonies that might threaten the industrial economy of England.

The acts were a development of the mercantilist system, an economic policy prevailing in Europe through the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. The regulations had clear advantages for British subjects in the American colonies. American shipbuilding prospered because of the requirement that all vessels be English-made. Producers of most Yves Saint Laurent Shoes of the named articles found a stable, protected market in England and in their sister colonies.

During the period of the French and Indian War (1754 1763), however, when Parliament was forced to seek increased revenues to pay the costs of defending the American colonies, British officials determined to impose heavier duties under the provisions of the Navigation Acts. American colonists found these duties heavy, and they are usually considered among the indirect causes of the American Revolution. The Navigation Acts were revoked in 1849.

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