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So Britain would have been screwed had America done a more serious boycott or gone to war earlier on then, eh?
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Not really. The orignal American trade boycott on foreign trade (a pretty stupid measure in itself) had been lifted in 1810. The British trade restrictions by Britain againt American trade with Napoleon's Europe were lifted before the war of 1812 began.
Wellington's despatches (from which I have lifted the style above) report his complaints about the high price that American merchants were charging for grain discharged from their ships in Spain--so trade continued.
Unlike in the time of the American civil war--American food exports to Britain were not yet vital.