Until someone shows me actual evidence of a ban being applied or at least some concrete plan with penalities for violations, what I have just read are nothing m

Until someone shows me actual evidence of a ban being applied or at least some concrete plan with penalities for violations, what I have just read are nothing more than rhetoric and posturing. Banning the export of a commodity is very hard. It works when the supply could be drastically reduced in the short term (1973 Arab oil embargo), or when the product has already failed in the market and they need government intervention to save face (recent Russian ban on raw timber export). In any other case, the goods will always find a way through the controls to meet the demand.