It is when the price is sky high because the export buy orders create massive shortages at home when there should be surpluses.TIL that buying resources from another market is "stealing".
The traders buy all your stuff at firesale prices leaving your people and industries to pay higher than average prices. Short of Isolationism or a full embargo there’s not anyway to stop it.
On the bright side as Russia the wood tariff pays for most of the government expenditure… labourers can freeze to death for all the Tsar cares I suppose.
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