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Would it have been at any point possible for the Spanish or Portuguese to bring Indonesian Spices (nutmeg, clove, black pepper, cinnamon, etc) to their New World colonies, and establish plantations of said spices there?

If so, how would such a thing go? And what effects would it have? Would Indonesian contract workers be brought to Mexico for example?

I assume the biggest one would be a lowering of prices of spices given the shorter transportation costs from the New World to Europe than from Indonesia to Europe.
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