<P> The Boston Tea Party was a political protest and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston , Massachusetts , on December 16 , 1773 . In defiance of the Tea Act of May 10 , 1773 , which allowed the British East India company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying any taxes , thus undercutting local tea merchants , the demonstrators , some disguised as Native Americans , destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company . </P>
where did the tea come from in the boston tea party
East India Company