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The Sugar Act was a new tax imposed on the colonies. What were some of the items taxes under the Sugar Act?

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The act also listed more foreign goods to be taxed including sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron. The enforced tax on molasses caused the almost immediate decline in the rum industry in the colonies.

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Coffee rum wine sugar molasses etc
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