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It depends on the nation involved. In Spain and Portugal, is was mostly the Government. In the Dutch Republic and Britain it was their independent trading companies who had more or less - and often with a charter from their Government - a monopoly for the spice trade. And let's certainly not forget the benefits to local rulers in the East, who had a huge market opening to them.

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