User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-6044976-20131228125415

Actually one of the loading screens states that Whiterun is a major trading place.

Also you kind of contadicted yourself

" If they stop trading both sides will loose important things,"

"Josh basically acts like Skyrim has nothing valuable, and can't survive without Cyrodiil. It's survived for thousands of years without Cyrodiilic help, it can manage"

If Skyrim can survive without Cyrodiil, then Cyrodiil can certainly survive without Skyrim, futhermore If Cyrodiil started trading with a Stormcloak controlled Skyrim then it would anger the Dominion and maybe even start another war which clearly is the last thing the Empire wants to do in its current state.