abstract:The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
Americans regularly brewed Twinning's tea for a while in the 1700's, but then, in 1773, the British government passed the TeaAct, a measure designed to give an advantage to the British East India Company.