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The Boston Non-importation agreement was an 18th century boycott that restricted importation of goods to the city of Boston. This agreement was signed on August 1, 1768 by more than 60 merchants and traders. After two weeks, there were only 16 traders who did not join the effort.
The burdensome taxes imposed by the King, the non-importation agreements, the Boston Massacre (1770), the Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773), the 1774 Boston Port Act (one of five Intolerable Acts), the resultant town meetings, and the popular animosity and disregard for the British Crown and Parliament, were well covered by Hall's Gazette ...
These agreements later served as the basis for the Non-Importation Act, and subsequent Embargo of 1807 that was passed by the United States Congress [1] in 1806 in an attempt to establish American nautical neutrality during the Napoleonic Wars between France and Britain.
Merchants in the colonies, some of them smugglers, organized economic boycotts to put pressure on their British counterparts to work for repeal of the Townshend Acts. Boston merchants organized the first non-importation agreement, which called for merchants to suspend importation of certain British goods effective 1 January 1768.
The following items were banned under the Non-Importation Act of 1806: All articles of which leather, silk, hemp, flax, tin (except in sheets), or brass was the material of chief value; All woolen clothes whose invoice prices shall exceed 5/- sterling per square yard; Woolen hosiery of all kinds; Window, glass and glassware; Silver and plated ...
NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) -RTX agreed to pay nearly $950 million to resolve federal charges it defrauded the U.S. Department of Defense into overpaying for defense systems and bribed an official ...
The AFL-CIO, America's largest labor group, praised the new rule in a post on X Tuesday, saying noncompete agreements "trap workers from finding better jobs, drive down wages, and stifle competition."
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