The Dutch East India Company collects a …
Years: 1720 - 1731
The Dutch East India Company collects a tax in coffee in the Priangen region of west Java and earns vast profits through sales in Europe and America.
Soon becoming the globe's greatest coffee broker, the Dutch company gains thereby a substitute for its substantial share of the China opium trade lost to Britain after 1720.
Locations
Groups
- Dutch East India Company in Indonesia
- Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company")
- Chinese Empire, Qing (Manchu) Dynasty
- Britain, Kingdom of Great
