Bowring Treaty [SEP] point in time
Bowring Treaty
The Bowring Treaty is the name given to an agreement signed on 18 April 1855 between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Siam that liberalized foreign trade in Siam. 
The treaty was signed by five Siamese plenipotentiaries (among them Wongsa Dhiraj Snid, one of the king's half-brothers) and by Sir John Bowring, Governor of Hong Kong, Britain's envoy.
The Burney Treaty had been signed between Siam and the United Kingdom in 1826. The new treaty elaborated and liberalized trade rules and regulations
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The Bowring Treaty.
In 1854, John Bowring, the Governor of Hong Kong in the name of Queen Victoria, came to Siam to negotiate a treaty. For the first time Siam had to deal seriously with international laws. Prayurawongse negotiated on the behalf of the Siamese. The result was the Bowring Treaty, which was regarded as an unequal treaty imposed by the British Empire on Siam. The main principle of the treaty was to abolish the Royal Storage (พระคลังสินค้า), which since Ayutthaya's times held