The Eden Agreement is not looked upon…
April 1787 CE
The French refute the agreement because of two central complaints; similarly to the English craft industries, the French craft industries fear being replaced by cheaper English-machine made factory goods.
Moreover, the French Craft industries have more traction in France than their English counterparts because of the known triumph of British industrial goods over French industrial goods.
Second, the French believe their wines are still too highly taxed in comparison to the Portuguese wines.
Shortly after the treaty is enforced those French critics are proven right.
The opening of the French ports allows for cheap English textiles and hardware companies to dump their goods into France.
The French become skeptical of the British, and it is widely believed that the British are depreciating their imports in order to flood the French markets.
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