wrote this before when goex close the door. in allmost any artillery ammo there is also blackpowder as a starter load for the main nitro powder charge. most peole don't know it.
if the us government let goex die for ever they had to buy black powder from china what they would not like in the end.
I am sure the chinese make a lot of this stuff maybe in a cottage industry across the country, not in the quality of swiss black powder - of course! there is a lot of need for black powder, its even used for some special blow up work in mines today.