![]() Asian commodities were paid for with exported British woollens and metals, supplemented by silver bullion. The Company also shipped Chinese merchandise from Canton (Guangzhou): tea, silk, textiles and porcelain. ![]() ![]() However cargoes of Indian cloth sparked growing interest amongst consumers in England. Tea, Textiles and PorcelainĪt its outset the East India Company was interested in the commercial opportunities offered by the spice islands of Southeast Asia rather than India. The East India Company evolved from a small enterprise run by a group of City of London merchants, which in 1600 had been granted a royal charter conferring the monopoly of English trade in the whole of Asia and the Pacific.
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