How to stop leaking trade from carribean

[Testeria]

So I try to conquer Americas as mayan civ. I can easily kill all the colonial nations, but I still cant stop leaking trade from my provinces.

As catholic nation I could boost mercantilism, but mayan do not have easy way to do this.

So what is the most effective way to keep all that money home? Protect trade? steer trade to Chesapeake bay?

I really do not want to conquer England or convert to catholic...

thanks,

 

[BaronIronmaggot]

You can embargo them. You can embargo your rivals for free. Embargoing non-rivals costs 5% trade effectiveness.

If you have the military and naval power, you can just use the trade casus bellis to force other nations in this node to give their trade power to you.

 

[gia257]

the only way to remove them completely is to conquer the downstream node, if spain steers to seville, you have to conquer seville, after you conquer it all put privateers on it so no one can get money from sevilla itself so they dont try to pull anything

 

[Ironside121]

Trading fleets to try maintain some of that tradepower could help, but only a little.

It'll get worse once the AI start sending their fleets there to steal your trade.

 

[henzington]

World conquest is the best solution to trade steering issues

 

[Casko]

Trade Ships, a lot of trade ships.

it does not make the money leek completely go away, but it can be used to control it abit so its less so.

 

[Bibor]

The easiest way is to conquer and dominate the Ivory Coast in Africa and collect everything there. Since it's all trade company land, no euro power will be really able to steal it away, especially if you invest a bit into those provinces to get them up to size 10 for 3 building slots. Colonizing or conquering Cape and/or the Zanzibar trade node also helps you indirectly in this regard.
It might require a few wars with Europeans to kick them out of West Africa, but its well worth it.