Tagged: tariffs

The World's Biggest Tea Growers Are Not Its Biggest Tea Drinkers

Turkey and Ireland top the per-person tea rankings. China, India, and Kenya, which grow and export almost all of the world's leaf, sit far down the list. The gap is not about taste. It is about how much of a harvest a country keeps for itself.

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.