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Full referenceForm Our Own Correspondent in London, Strange Plight of Chinese Tea. Sky-Rocketing Prices for the Indian Variety but the China Leaf Stagnant. Position of the British Consumer (1925)
TypeJournal article
Author(s)Form Our Own Correspondent in London
TitleStrange Plight of Chinese Tea. Sky-Rocketing Prices for the Indian Variety but the China Leaf Stagnant. Position of the British Consumer
Year1925
JournalNorth China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette
Start page413
LanguageEnglish
Keywordstea; quality; variety; price; standard; consumption; consumer; taste; competition; association; China; India; Great Britain;
Abstract

Explains the relative stagnation of the prices of China teas in Britain (compared to the prices of Indian or Japanese teas) by the fact that British consumers do not like Chinese teas. Even the poor do not buy cheaper Chinese teas. 

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North China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, March 7, 1925, p.413

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  • China Tea Association (GB)
  • Honorary Secretary of the British China Tea Association (author of the article)
  • Board of Trade 
  • Food Commission
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