East India Company: English

In 1796, when Ceylon was taken from the Dutch by the English, the cinnamon trade became a monopoly of the East India Company, and when the kingdom of Kandy fell under British control in 1815, the wild cinnamon produced there was added to the cultivated kind, but the annual export did not usually exceed 500,000 lb. The monopoly granted to the company was abolished in 1833, and the mei chants Galle and Colombo were allowed a share in the trade. But a heavy export duty of one-third or one-half its value, and the competition of cinnamon grown in Java, and of cas from China and other countries, decreased the cultivation in Ceylon. This duty was not removed until A.D. 1853. 

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