Trade flourished between India and the countries listed in the table.
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Portugal
The Netherlands
France
England
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The Dutch East India Company, officially the United East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; VOC) was a megacorporation founded by a government-directed amalgamation of several rival Dutch trading companies (voorcompagnieën) in the early 17th century.[1][2] It was established on 20 March 1602, as a chartered company to trade with Mughal India[3] during the period of proto-industrialization,[4] from which 50% of textiles and 80% of silks were imported, chiefly from its most developed region known as Bengal Subah.[5][6][7][8][9] In addition, the company traded with Indianised Southeast Asian countries when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade. It has been often labelled a trading company (i.e. a company of merchants who buy and sell goods produced by other people) or sometimes a shipping company. However, VOC was in fact a proto-conglomerate company, diversifying into multiple commercial and industrial activities such as international trade (especially intra-Asian trade),[10][11][12][13][14][15] shipbuilding, and both production and trade of East Indian spices,[16] Formosan sugarcane,[17][18] and South African wine.[19][20][21] The Company was a transcontinental employer and an early pioneer of outward foreign direct investment. In the early 1600s, by widely issuing bonds and shares of stock to the general public,[a] VOC became the world's first formally listed public company.[b] In other words, it was the first corporation to be listed on an official stock exchange.[c][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] It was influential in the rise of corporate-led globalisation in the early modern period. It is said to be worth $7.9 trillion in today's value.[30][31]
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