Outsiders say "don't send goods to Ethiopia and never receive any from there", it is called sanction.
This group also includes those who boycott any development initiatives in the country. You remember when Prof. Berhanu Nega visited the US and asked the diaspora to contribute towards the improvement of school system in the country. The diaspora refused to heed the call.
Now one of the improvements was achieved by the expenses of the state itself, the recent 12th grade exam organization has been said to have costed hundreds of millions of ETB.
Insiders say "keep the goods in the warehouses and stockpile until price is high and create scarcity, artificially, in the meantime".
The government wants to punish the later group but for that you need to have a codified legal provision, else it could cause more expenses to the state coffers and politically.