A still-British America: trade and economics.

Imagine that the Thirteen Colonies managed to strike a deal with the mother country, and they go with something along the lines of the Albany Plan of Union.

How would internal trade and trade with Britain and the rest of the Empire look like? Would there be an inter-provincial trade clause, some kind of economic union in addition to this political union of the colonies?

Would the provinces more likely control their trade with their own tariffs, leaving broad Union-wide trade and trade with the Native Americans to the Union government? London would prefer an exclusive trading relationship with this area of potential economic productivity and wealth, though might not be happy with high provincial tariffs. I think other provinces would prefer not having so many restrictive trade policies within the Union?

Thoughts? I think several here would argue that a still-British America with no ARW means at most a confederated United Colonies of the original Thirteen that gradually includes the other BNA holdings over a century plus or minus half a century, or at least several Dominions on the North American continent (partial Unions) that fully mature by the end of the 19th century? If either of those cases, how would the economies of those several Dominions, or the confederal United Colonies, look like?
 
Industrialization is retarded by a generation or more, the opening of Transylvania, Carlottia, and Vandalia happens, and the population jumps even higher. Philadelphia still remains the capital while the Erie Canal may not be built. Slavery may end a decade or two earlier but with debt-slavery taking its place. There is probably a lingering independence movement that tries again during the Napoleonic era but it may not succeed if British governance stays firm yet fair. Finished goods are imported and resources exported with limited development of hard industry until the 1820s/1830s while education remains more a social advantage than a practical means of development.
 
Industrialization is retarded by a generation or more, the opening of Transylvania, Carlottia, and Vandalia happens, and the population jumps even higher. Philadelphia still remains the capital while the Erie Canal may not be built. Slavery may end a decade or two earlier but with debt-slavery taking its place. There is probably a lingering independence movement that tries again during the Napoleonic era but it may not succeed if British governance stays firm yet fair. Finished goods are imported and resources exported with limited development of hard industry until the 1820s/1830s while education remains more a social advantage than a practical means of development.

It sounds a lot like OTL for industry, though there might be earlier emancipation in this case. Would an Erie canal be too much for this Union government or New York Province to do on their own, in either case?

How would the City of London and New York work with a British America? Woyld London be favored more or still have a New York-London finanicial synergy like OTL?

Would the colonies form their own economic union, perhaps to compete and negotiate with the rest of the empire?
 
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