The Anglo-Moroccan Treaty of 1856 was a treaty between Morocco and the United Kingdom signed in Tangier on 9 December 1856. It was signed after lengthy negotiations between John Hay Drummond Hay and Muhammad al-Khatib, representatives of Queen Victoria and Sultan Abd al-Rahman, respectively. This treaty prolonged Morocco's independence but gave major concessions to British interests, and set a precedent.^[1]

This treaty was composed of two texts: the first was a general treaty of 38 articles dealing with the status of consuls, and their privileges and their freedom of movement, as well as the settling of British subjects in the country.

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The second text was a treaty of commerce with 8 articles. The most important was Article 6, which set the customs tariffs at 10%.^[2][1] The treaty abolished the Makhzen monopoly and definitively opened trade in Morocco.

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