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308:, just five years earlier had ended badly; Brooke had threatened to dispatch his fleet to bombard Siamese ports after negotiations broke down. Despite this, Bowring established an amiable relationship with the Siamese delegation, being welcomed like foreign royalty and showered with pomp (including a 21-gun salute). Though Bowring had become frustrated by the obstinate attitudes of Qing diplomats, he relished the friendly attitude shown by the Siamese, which allowed for the treaty to be negotiated in far smoother terms than other treaties he negotiated. The treaty eventually led other Western powers to sign their own bilateral treaties, based on the terms set by the Bowring Treaty. 34: 99: 87: 578: 134: 590: 326:
with Siam. The Bowring Treaty in particular ensured that the Western powers would not intervene in Siam's internal affairs, and allowed for Siam to remain an independent nation (in contrast to its neighbors). The treaty is now credited by historians with ensuring the economic rejuvenation of Bangkok,
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British subjects were given the right to trade freely in all seaports and to reside permanently in Bangkok. They were to be allowed to buy and rent property in the environs of Bangkok; namely, in an area more than four miles from city walls but less than twenty-four hours' journey from the city
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Carl A. Trocki, "Drugs, Taxes, and Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia," in Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952, ed. Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), p.
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The treaty's largest effect (after liberalising foreign trade) was the legalization of opium exports into Siam, which had previously been banned by the Siamese Crown. The treaty was similar in nature to the
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The Siamese government reserved the right to prohibit the export of salt, rice, and fish whenever these articles were deemed to be scarce in the country.
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British subjects were placed under consular jurisdiction—Britons could not be prosecuted by local Siamese authorities without consent from the
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British merchants were to be allowed to buy and sell directly with individual Siamese subjects without interference from any third party.
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Articles of export were to be taxed just once, whether the tax was called an inland tax, a transit duty, or an export duty.
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on 18 April 1855. The treaty had the primary effect of liberalising foreign trade in Siam, and was signed by five Siamese
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to Siam in order to negotiate a new one. The treaty negotiated by him allowed free trade by foreign merchants in
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in 1826, coming about as a result of the two powers having a mutual opposition to the
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Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between the British Empire and the Kingdom of Siam
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The import duty was fixed at three per cent for all articles, with two exceptions:
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Thai version of the Treaty, written on Thai black books, prior to being sent to
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as it created a framework in which multilateral trade could operate freely in
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Measurement duties were abolished and import and export duties were fixed.
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was to be free of duty, but it had to be sold by the opium producer, and
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Treaty of friendship and commerce between Great Britain and Siam
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Great Britain
Royal seal
Bangkok
Siam
British Empire
Thai
English
Bowring Treaty
Wikisource
British Empire
Kingdom of Siam
plenipotentiaries
Wongsa Dhiraj Snid
King
Sir John Bowring
colonial governor
Hong Kong
Burney Treaty
Kingdom of Siam
British Empire
Ava Kingdom
Sir John Bowring
Bangkok
British government
extraterritoriality
opium
bullion
unequal treaties
Qing government

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