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Britain applied for the policy of mercantilism to its American colonies through the Navigation Acts. It led to inflation and alienation in the colonies.
Britain had something to do with mercantilism, and they used the colonists to benefit themselves.
It restricted their trade.
Britain used Mercantilism to create a very favorable balance of trade for themselves. Parliament used the policy of Mercantilism to exclusively benefit Britain above anyone else. The colonies were to sell raw materials to Britain, where they would then be manufactured into products to be sold in Europe, and back in the colonies. The arrangement banned the colonists from competing with manufacturing.