Trade Commission
Bureaucracy

Trade Commission

trade_commission_bureaucracy

A regulatory body tasked with licensing merchants, adjudicating commercial disputes, setting tariffs, and combating smuggling. Institutions such as the British Board of Trade or the oversight councils of the Dutch Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie showed how organized state engagement with commerce could transform national prosperity. Without enforcement capacity, however, a Trade Commission becomes toothless — licensed monopolies are evaded, tariff revenues leak away, and the broader trading economy is left worse off than before.

Cost
Price to implement
Maintenance price
Price to remove

Potential
Exact conditions

Constant effects
Positive effects
With Bureaucracy Maintenance: ×0 at 0% → ×1 at 100%
Negative effects
With Bureaucracy Maintenance: ×1 at 0% → ×0 at 100%
Formula: 1 − Bureaucracy Maintenance

Requires 2

Advances
Institutions

References 6

Estates
Prices
Modifier Types

Mentioned in 1

implementation_price = price:implement_bureaucracy_price
maintenance_price_modifier = {
value = country_economical_base
multiply = 0.004
}
potential = {
OR = {
has_embraced_institution = institution:confessionalism
}
}
estates_that_like = { burghers_estate }
estates_that_dislike = { nobles_estate }

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