Abstract
The aim of the present work is to analyze the trajectory of the Buenos Aires Trading Consulate by the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries. We also analyze the disputes between merchants, landowners and British traders. We propose to show that the Trading Consulate provided financial support to the Crown, until its collapse and afterwards to the local revolutionary authorities. These revenues were provided by the custom taxes imposed on the introduction of goods and the outflow of produce. From the beginning of the 19th century, the opening of the ports that benefited the landowners and the British traders took place. We consider that the consequences of the opening of the ports were among the factors that explain, along with wars and adoption of liberal policies, the decline and dissolution of the Consulate.
Keywords:
Buenos Aires consulate; landowners; British traders