- To help the financial conditions of the ailing East India Company (faced economic collapse after the Seven Years of Wars).
- The Act eliminated the Customs Duty on Company’s Tea and permitted its direct export to America.
- Dropping the Customs Duty would allow the East India Company to sell its tea for a cost less than Smuggled Dutch tea.
- Some Colonists considered the Act as a cunning way to get the Americans to pay the hated Townshend duty on tea by undercutting the price of smuggled Dutch tea.
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