Embargoes

[Derkylos]

Let me put it this way...

When the U.S. Imposed economic sanctions on Iraq near Desert Storm-era time, Iraq hurt badly since alot of their exports, possibly Oil, wasn't being shipped and things weren't coming in...

We have the Rheinland-Liberty Trade Embargo.

Trader #1 takes Military Vehicles from Liberty into Rheinland - Of course Liberty does not want Rheinland having their 'advanced' weaponry, not to mention that Rheinland would have complete access to their Tanks and Jeeps and what not, find weakspots or ways to disable the vehicle - Or even use them when the war starts to do some sabotage operation under the guise of a Liberty Army Tank... But the fact being all of the trader's take upwards of their entire cargo hold full of these... There is pretty much no way all of those tanks disappeared and isn't being hunted down like Edison Trent.

Trader #2 is shipping Military Vehicles from Rheinland into Liberty... Rheinland doesn't want their superior things falling into enemy hands... But what does Liberty want with them? Unless the Trader is some LSF Spy that was put in there to capture a few of their vehicles and then return to Liberty so the vehicles can be dissected... There really isn't much going - If some Trader popped through to Liberty and said "I'm funding you guys with War-machines!"
With the intent of selling them to the Navy, how do you think that would sound?

In real life if there was a war between the USA and Russia... And some civillian convoy pulled up with tank's being towed and said "I'm going to sell you Russian Tanks."

What do you think is going to happen and do you realize how absurb that is?

There is any possibility that the thing's are booby-trapped even if you where to place the man in custody and inspect his goods - There is still danger... Maybe hidden in with harmless pharmaceuticals are Rheinland Spies or Special Forces operatives designed for a preemptive strike... Or maybe the so called toys are poisoned with lead or something...

While Liberty may loose out on a few things, its better to be safe than sorry - However I trust that there might be purpose to RP a few of the stuff that was mentioned if the Navy/Military agree before it's done...

Hate to nitpick, but you just contradicted yourself. To paraphrase: "Liberty does not want Rheinland to get their hands on their tanks etc, because they will reverse engineer them/mount undercover ops/w/e" and "Liberty does not want Rheinland's tanks coz they may be faulty".

By this logic, neither side should be preventing the exports, because the other side is preventing the imports...but then one side will catch on and allow the imports, meaning the other side will have to prevent exports...horrendous vicious circle.

In the case of someone bringing anything into your nation/house/state/whatever, you should accept them on the condition that the items in question are sold within your house (or however you wanna RP it: handed over to the local authorities and a "finder's fee" paid, etc).

In the old trade system, Bretonia frowned on any produce being shipped from Kusari, through Bretonia and on to the Zoners (E-comps to Lanzarote).

At present, all that seems to happen is a group of lawfuls sit in Houston orbit, accosting every passing trader. The serious blockade runners get by easily, and everyone else gets bored.

The problem with such attempts to completely prevent the flow of traffic is that, in most cases, one of two things will happen. Either the flow will stop completely, and the only people you will ever have passing to RP with (remember, the key concept is that flow of traders=RP) will be those "powertraders", literally the silent/the ignorant/those who cry "I'm a Zoner, you can't touch me", etc, or, and this is more likely, people will continue to do the run(s) when your faction is absent. It is impossible to keep a 24/7 watch. This result will also deprive you of any "good" RP encounters, leaving the aforementioned group of players, and the "enforcing" faction looking for other outlets for interaction.

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