My assumption reading the piece is that individual orders aren't being swallowed up so much as a warehouse has a stock and tells the customer so. And then sometime between an order being placed and fulfilled the feds use their power under the defense whatever it's called act to say, "All your stock of such-and-such item belongs to us," meaning that Jose's supply and everyone else who ordered from that supplier is gone in an instant, rather than any specific order being "redirected." Just an assumption.So. Back to Jose and his order being snarfed up by "someone".
It seems to be more order-specific, reading the article. Places that are designated as "approved" (aka - Trump country) don't have their orders seized... they get their merch. It's the others that get it snarfed... which leads to the very practical business problems I talked about...