I tried to order some rough from Hilmar Bosch in South Africa in April, but he wasn’t able to ship at that time due to Coronavirus shut down, so he placed them on hold for me. Finally they were given permission to do business and I wired payment on June 10. On June 11, Hilmar notified all his customers that South Africa had banned all exports of gem materials and he was refunding outstanding orders, and can’t accept new orders. As it turns out DHL had already gotten my parcel into transit, and I received it in a few days (amazing, wonderful stuff, as always). As of now he’s not taking new orders and is trying to figure out how to start selling from the states, but to do so he has to get material out and he cannot even carry it with him physically under the new regulations. Whether the new policy is directly coronavirus related isn’t clear to me but the initial hold up was and the timing suggests it is.