Since this morning, the South Africa Foreign Trade Office has been inundated with a constant stream of inquiry calls.
"What? Your side has stopped too? Import textiles valued at 50 million US Dollars have all been detained? Who detained them? By what right did they detain them?"
"100,000 barrels of wine have also been detained?"
"What? Your partners have breached the contract too? They were about to reach the port and then turned back?"
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Everything was fine yesterday, but it felt like overnight, their foreign trade had almost come to a standstill.
More than 80% of the deals were almost all canceled!
The shipments they were exporting, whether by air or sea, were all directly broken, and some planes even flew over their airport, circled a few times then turned back!
