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The Sugar Industry Post-Independence

In: How Trade Liberalization Affects a Sugar Dependent Community in Jamaica

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  • Donovan Stanberry

    (University of the West Indies)

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As established in Chapter 3 , the emancipation of slavery in 1838 combined with the triumph of free trade and the rise of capitalism in Britain, as well as the increasing competition from European beet sugar, inflicted a near mortal wound on the sugar industry in Jamaica. The latter half of the nineteenth century represented dark days for the industry. The persistent lobbying of the planter class however, resulted in the eventual constitution of the 1897 Commission of Enquiry, which inter alia, recommended that Britain imposed protectionist duties on European sugar imports. This development, coupled with World War 1, which ravaged beet sugar production in Europe, gave the industry in Jamaica a new lease on life. The institutionalization of a preferential trade regime by Britain in 1929 for colonial sugar, gave the Jamaican industry an additional boost.

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  • Donovan Stanberry, 2022. "The Sugar Industry Post-Independence," Springer Books, in: How Trade Liberalization Affects a Sugar Dependent Community in Jamaica, chapter 0, pages 61-81, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-89359-0_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89359-0_4
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