Multinational Food Corporations

Multinational corporations are businesses that sell commodities or services in more than one country. Such businesses have affected American history from the earliest colonial times. In the 1600s the Dutch West Indies Company founded New Netherland, which eventually became New York. The British East Indies Company monopolized the tea trade within the British Empire from the 1600s to the 1800s. The company’s attempts to maintain its monopoly, coupled with the British government’s need for revenue, contributed to the outbreak of the American War for Independence in 1776.