Sentence:  This trade was subject to a tariff of 7.5 per cent after February 1835 , but much was smuggled into Assiniboia with the <WSD>result</WSD> that the duty was reduced by 1841 to 4 per cent on the initiative of the London committee . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon