What Are The Three Main Points Of China's Open Door Policy

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In 1899, while tensions with China were high, and China finally opening trade back up, after years of not trading. The United States jumped on the chance to keep their trade open, by creating the Open Door Policy. This policy had three main points. One, each great power should keep up free access to any treaty port or any other vested interest within its sphere, this point was simply saying that any great spherical power should keep its trading ports open, this helps keep the trade fair for even the smaller countries who relied on trade with major countries. Two, only the Chinese government should collect taxes on trade, meaning that on imports brought into any port of China or any exports sent out buy China the Chinese government should collect