<Tr> <Th> Commencement </Th> <Td> 24 June 1733 (in part) 25 December 1733 (entire act) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Status: Repealed </Th> </Tr> <P> The Molasses Act of March 1733 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (citation 6 Geo II . c. 13), which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-English colonies . Parliament created the act largely at the insistence of large plantation owners in the British West Indies . The Act was not passed for the purpose of raising revenue, but rather to regulate trade by making British products cheaper than those from the French West Indies . The Molasses Act greatly affected the significant colonial molasses trade . </P> <P> The Molasses Act of 1733 provided: </P>

What was the purpose of the molasses act
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