> I suppose if Sudan tried to squeeze their monopoly other suppliers would easily come up in other regions. There are a lot of goods like this, where the marke

> I suppose if Sudan tried to squeeze their monopoly other suppliers would easily come up in other regions. There are a lot of goods like this, where the market has consolidated around the cheapest supplier for convenience but if that supplier disappeared the next-cheapest one would be fine at 10% more. It looks like a catastrophic chokepoint on the economy but it's really not a big deal.