Tagged: trade policy
The Tea Trade Fought to Keep America's Border Tea Tasters
From 1897 to 1996 the US sampled every lot of imported tea against a federal standard. The trade lobbied to keep it, and paid the meeting expenses of the board that recommended the standard.
Geographical Indications in Tea
What a geographical indication legally is, how it differs from a trademark and a certification mark, what the WTO treaty behind it actually obliges, which tea names are registered where, and what the empirical literature says the premium is worth.
The Tea Board of India
The statutory body that licenses every tea garden in the country, forces half the crop through public auction, and owns the Darjeeling name outright. It was built on a cess that no longer exists.
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.