An object available for buying and selling at eBoy's. It is one of the three goods available to sell for cigarettes.1) If you do not sell tea for a long time, you will have your tea and requisition stolen by Thieving Squat Bastards.2)3)

Also a vital part of having tea with one of the Island's most well-known hosts. He really likes his tea.

1)
The other 2 are coffee and sugar
2)
So sell your tea, or the Squats will come for you!
3)
Or drink it, that's the other alternative. A nice cup of tea and a sit down, that's what you need…