July 4: America needed India-made clothes in its Independence fight but British put up tariff walls

July 4: America needed India-made clothes in its Independence fight but British put up tariff walls

Britain’s tariff policies on Indian goods were not just economic measures; they were tools to maintain imperial control over both the American colonies and India

While Washington marshalled troops and strategy, the American colonists were also fighting an economic war– one that happened to be linked to Indian cotton industry. AI-generated image