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Well if your town has a steel mill and nothing else, why would you be an asshole and withhold your products from everyone else if you need to get other stuff elsewhere? Your scenario is only realistic if one commune somehow perfectly lucks out into eternal self-sufficiency.
Because some regions have almost no important export, so if the town containing the steel mill thinks they deserve better infrastructure, hospitals, etc, than other towns but aren't getting it, this can cause animosity to grow causing them to demand more services or decrease/stop exporting metal.
Seems like something that could feasibly happen when you have power imbalances that come with centralised production. We have to contemplate these issues even in a classless society.