Methuen Treaty, a commercial treaty negotiated in 1703 by Paul Methuen, the English ambassador in Portugal, with that country, to admit Portuguese wines to England at a duty one-third less than that on French wines, the Portuguese undertaking in return to admit English wool, imposing on it, however, the old duty of 23 per cent. ad valorem. It was annulled in 1835.
Methuen Treaty
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