Early in the nineteenth century, the export of British cotton products saw a ____

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Early in the nineteenth century, the export of British cotton products saw a surge.
As England's cotton industry grew, business organisations started to worry about imports from other nations. For Manchester products to sell in Britain without any outside competition, they persuaded the government to impose import taxes on cotton textiles. Industrialists also convinced the East India Company to offer British goods in Indian markets at the same time. Early in the nineteenth century, there was a sharp increase in the export of British cotton products. Nearly no cotton piece goods had been imported into India at the end of the eighteenth century. However, cotton piece goods made up more than 31% of Indian imports' value by 1850 and more than 50% by the 1870s.

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