Tagged: export tax

Who Pays the Tea Tax?

Kenya, Sri Lanka, and India have each taxed a kilogram of tea leaving the country, at different rates, for different reasons, with different results. Here is what each levy actually does, and who really carries it.

The Price of Tea

The canonical reference on what sets a tea's price. What fixes it at the point of sale, why the real-terms trend has run downhill for a century, where the money goes once the leaf clears the gate, what moves it between sales, and what a certification label actually adds.

Trade and Tariffs

What a tea shipment actually pays to cross a border, in three layers that rarely move together: the import tariff, the exporting country's own levy, and a growing set of non-tariff rules that now do more to stop a shipment than either tax does.