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Title: | The New Africa Trading Company and the Struggle for Import Duties in the Congo Free State, 1886-1894 |
Author: | Obdeijn, Herman |
Year: | 1983 |
Periodical: | African Economic History |
Volume: | 12 |
Pages: | 195-212 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Congo (Democratic Republic of) Netherlands Congo Free State |
Subjects: | tariffs trading companies History and Exploration colonialism Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3601324 |
Abstract: | As one of the most important trading companies with a long-established interest in the Congo, the New African Trading Company (NAHV) was representative of the period of informal rule. The changes in the 1880s brought it into a tight corner. However, Article IV of the General Act passed at the Conference of Berlin, 1884-1885, seemed to safeguard its interests. When, shortly afterwards, the NAHV was confronted with the first restrictive measures introduced by king Leopold, who seemed little inclined to follow up the free trade agreements with respect to the Congo Free State, the NAHV reacted fiercely and immediately invoked the assistance of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The author chronicles the NAHV's fight to retain its position, in particular at the anti-slavery conference of Brussels, 1889-1890, and the supplementary conference in the autumn of 1890, the reactions in the Congo Free State, and the relation between the NAHV and the Congo Free State after the conference of Brussels. Bibliogr., notes. |