w00t won :) great game and for the people who wonder why buy and give away tea for free I have three theories:
1. You were supplied ships by some company(or the country) and your job was to smuggle opium and in return you had to supply them with free tea so they could make money.
2.You are trying to keep the British people from rage-killing the Chinese for as long as you can so you can make money, so you simply give them free tea to keep them happy.
3.The game makers made you have some money sink so the game would be slightly more challenging then just buy low sell high and virtually no way to lose