User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-14027812-20131229230809/@comment-17114085-20131230123106

Don't mind me, just butting in.

Hammerfell would obviously trade, because they already are. A ship captain in Dawnstar just came from Hammerfell. Alesan was also a redguard that came from Hammerfell with his father on a trade ship, when his father died they left him in Dawnstar.

Morrowind and Skyrim are in good relations since Skyrim gave Morrowind Solstheim. In fact a major trading partner of Raven Rock is Windhelm.

High Rock, if the Stormcloaks win, will be cut off from the Empire, and only have naval trade routes. They will most likely have some form of trade with Skyrim, as its much cheaper, to bring goods from Solitude than from Anvil.

People aren't illogical in Tamriel, a business is still a business. That meaning that their main goal is earning money. Evidence of this is the fact that the EEC has a headquarters in Windhelm, Ulfric lets them be there and they want to be there to EARN money.