One big gang of thieves decided to not interfere with local production and hence allowed a local supply chain to emerge organically, drastically improving productivity.

Other big gangs of thieves around the world are responding to this by interfering with local production, and will end up drastically reducing productivity and disrupting existing supply chains.

Those who are productive will be the ones who end up suffering, unless they are favoured by a particular gang of thieves for some reason and get some special treatment.

This is the 'global trade war' in a nutshell. Just thieves and leeches fighting over territory and resources they can steal from.