For the 13 colonies, they must obey Britain's economic policy. The 13 colonies must sell raw materials to Britain only.And there were no free tradings. They may use Britain's ships to transport goods only. But for Hong Kong, it is a free port in 1841. You can use what ship no matter you want and the ships could enter Victoria Harbour freely.Beside that,there were free tradings in Hong Kong. So, there were many foreigners came to for trading.
There are many political differences and similarities between Hong Kong and the 13 colonies. The Britain government passed some acts made the colonists had to pay for the cost of keeping this army.Such as Sugar act, sugar and wine imports must pay a tax ; Stamp act, all printed documents must pay a stamp duty from 1 cent to 50 dollars; Townshend acts, all paper, tea, lead and glass must a tax.In Hong Kong, we have to pay a tax for wine and pay for the stamp also. But we don't have Townshend acts.
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Ok, Mandy, you've done an excellent job of comparing and contrasting the economies of the colonies; and from your last paragraph, perhaps you can conclude that the British learned not to punish the Chinese economy as harshly as it punished the one of the 13 colonies.
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