3. c. 16), long titled An Act to prevent the Exportation of Wool out of the Kingdoms of Ireland and England into Forreigne parts and for the Incouragement of the Woollen Manufactures in the Kingdom of England.

Competing woolens from these areas had recently become more available in foreign and domestic markets.

The Act prohibited American colonists from exporting wool and wool products,[2] or export to markets outside the individual colony in which it was produced, or to be transported from one place to another in the same colony.

[5] Shopkeepers had a very hard time during this period when the Wool Act was in force.

[6] Later in the year however, duties were abolished for English exportation of manufactured woolens and other products by the Taxation (No.