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Why do you think that British officials rarely carried out th molasses act?
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The Molasses Act imposed a stiff import duty on non-British imports of molasses into the US. The Act had been drawn up for the benefit and profit margins and under much pressure of the British West Indies plantation owners.
Since this would have severely damaged much of the US colonies' rum-making and export industry and its flourishing trade with the countries they imported the molasses from, the US colonists strongly opposed the Act and started an extensive smuggling network for non-British molasses. The British government on the other hand did not stand to benefit financially by enforcing the Act; any profit would have gone to the already extremely rich sugar barons in the West Indies.
Faced with the practical impossibility to control the smuggling and with no financial interest of their own to protect, the local British officials - for whom moreover local prosperity was much more important than that of some far-away islands - decided not to press the issue.
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