Assertion: cotton's production | /r/HasProperty | imported
Facets:
value: annually
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: This mechanised production was concentrated in new cotton mills, which slowly expanded till by the beginning of the 1770s seven thousand bales of cotton were imported annually, and pressure was put on Parliament, by the new mill owners, to remove the prohibition on the production and sale of pure cotton cloth, as they could easily compete with anything the EIC could import.