Question: What laws directed the flow of goods between england and the colonies?

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question: What broad acts directed the flow of goods between england and the colonies?
short_answers: Acts of Trade and Navigation
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question: What narrower acts directed the flow of goods between england and the colonies?
short_answers: Navigation Acts
context: With the establishment of overseas colonies a distinct colonial policy began to develop, and the principles embodied in the early Navigation and Trade Acts also had some more immediate precedents in the provisions of the charters granted to the London and Plymouth Company, in the various royal patents later bestowed by Charles I and Charles II, as well as in the early regulations concerning the tobacco trade, the first profitable colonial export. An Order in Council of 24 October 1621 prohibited the Virginia colony to export tobacco and other commodities to foreign countries. The London Company lost its charter in 1624; the same year a proclamation, followed by Orders in Council, prohibited the use of foreign ships for the Virginia tobacco trade. These early companies held the monopoly on trade with their plantation; this meant that the commerce developed was to be England's. The Crown's purpose was to restrict to England the future commerce with America; it is well shown in the patent granted by Charles I to William Berkeley in 1639, by which the patentee was "to oblige the masters of vessels, freighted with productions of the colony, to give bond before their departure to bring same into England ... and to forbid all trade with foreign vessels, except upon necessity."
question: What order directed the flow of goods between england and the colonies, by banning Virginia from exporting to other countries?
short_answers: Order in Council of 24 October 1621
context: As early as 1641 some English merchants urged that these rules be embodied in an act of Parliament, and during the Long Parliament, movement began in that direction. The "Ordinance for Free Trade with the plantations in New England" was passed in November 1644. In 1645, both to conciliate the colonies and to encourage English shipping, the Long Parliament prohibited the shipment of whalebone, except in English-built ships; they later prohibited the importation of French wine, wool, and silk from France. More generally and significantly on 23 January 1647, they passed the "Ordinance granting privileges for the encouragement of Adventurers to plantations in Virginia, Bermudas, Barbados, and other places of America"; it enacted that for three years no export duty be levied on goods intended for the colonies, provided they were forwarded in English vessels. Adam Anderson noted that this law also included "security being given here, and certificates from thence, that the said goods be really exported thither, and for the only use of the said plantations". He concluded: "Hereby the foundation was laid for the navigation acts afterward, which may be justly termed the Commercial Palladium of Britain."
question: What ordinance directed the flow of goods between england and the new england colonies?
short_answers: The Ordinance for Free Trade with the plantations in New England

Answer: The Acts of Trade and Navigation, specifically the Navigation Acts directed the flow of goods between England and the colonies. The Order in Council of 24 October 1621 banned Virginia from exporting goods to other countries. And, The Ordinance for Free Trade with the plantations in New England, directed the flow of goods between England and the New England colonies.