Corn Laws
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corn-laws-223-68059
title:
Corn Laws
text:
The Corn Laws were tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and corn enforced in the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1846. The word corn in British English denoted all cereal grains, including wheat, oats and barley. The laws were designed to keep corn prices high to favour domestic farmers, and represented British mercantilism. The Corn Laws blocked the import of cheap corn, initially by simply forbidding importation below a set price, and later by imposing steep import duties, mak
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encyclopedia
description:
19th-century trade restrictions on import food and grain in Great Britain
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws
date created:
2002-09-24T17:06:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T08:58:28Z
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