Memorial concerning the Difference of the Custom and Duties on Sope Imported, and the Duties Imposed on that made in Great Britain caption title

by Soap

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England Needs Soap A rare and detailed petition to Parliament charging that the prohibitively high tariff on imported soap has created a black market for soap imports that is driving domestic soap manufacturers out of business. The decline in domestic soap manufacture, the authors argue, is also having detrimental effects on the commerce and industries it supports, including the Trades to Russia and the Baltick for Pot-ashes and Clapboards, the Straits for Oyl, New England

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