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The business of tea, read the way a market is read. Auction prices, harvests, trade, and the figures behind them, reported plainly and sourced to the record. We cover the trade, not the cup.

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Why Is Tea So Cheap?

Tea's auction price has gone nowhere for 20 years and now sits below what was paid a century ago, in real terms. Here is what the figures say is actually happening, and who is absorbing the squeeze.

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Why Is Tea So Cheap?

Tea's auction price has gone nowhere for 20 years and now sits below what was paid a century ago, in real terms. Here is what the figures say is actually happening, and who is absorbing the squeeze.

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Markets & Prices

Why Is Tea So Cheap?

Tea's auction price has gone nowhere for 20 years and now sits below what was paid a century ago, in real terms. Here is what the figures say is actually happening, and who is absorbing the squeeze.

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