The Act was not passed for the purpose of raising revenue , but rather to regulate trade by making British products cheaper than those from the French West Indies .
Parliament created the act largely at the insistence of large plantation owners in the British West Indies .
The Act was not passed for the purpose of raising revenue , but rather to regulate trade by making British West Indies products cheaper than those from the French West Indies .
Parliament created the act largely at the insistence of large plantation owners in the British West Indies .