Ever since the open and covert struggle in the international Magical World had begun, with the world pressing in step by step after Hogwarts Floating City rose into the air, the people of the British Magical World now felt more and more clearly the impact the embargo had on every aspect of life and the economy.
The anti-British Magical World alliance led by the Magical Worlds of Germany and Bulgaria in this operation had begun targeting the British Magical World with a trade blockade, focusing on cutting off the United Kingdom's various imported raw materials. Using their own countries' influence over other nations and stoking others' fear of the United Kingdom's rise, they had rapidly expanded this trade-embargo alliance against the United Kingdom, spreading it to other small and medium-sized countries around the world, until it had formed a trade-blockade net that enveloped the United Kingdom from every direction like dark clouds bearing down on a city.
The corresponding embargo measures that followed more closely were further refined and swiftly implemented. Just as the United Kingdom had banned the use of Flying Carpets from the Arabian magical regions, Hogwarts's Spelljammers also met with resistance from other countries and were forbidden from entering their territories. Although for wizards, using the Undetectable Extension Charm meant there was no real difficulty in transportation, that attitude still revealed the other countries' determination.
They adopted even more targeted sanctions against Harris's Umbrella Group, and against Umbrella's founding and strongest industry, pharmaceuticals. While controlling the import of raw materials, they focused on raising Umbrella's production costs for medicine, while at the same time aggressively suppressing the prices of finished potions, hoping to leave Umbrella's potions with no profit margin—they were trying to make Umbrella's cost of producing Potions so high that there was simply no profit