Did China just end vaping?

[Buckeyevapen]

So many sources are reporting that China just outlawed the export of all e juice and hardware citing that it was dangerous to their tobacco industry. WTH!

It is being reported by every major news outlet at this time.

I'm not panicking yet as I believe the larger companies will simply leave the country to continue doing business but it might create a bubble in the chain of items being available.

It's just shocking.

 

[YKruss]

Any pointers/links?

I couldn't find anything.

 

[retired1]

It's a bogus story. The Spinfuel "references" are not legitimate media sites. It's all click bait. They fell for a news scam.

 

[edyle]

Here’s what we know so far.
Wang Xia, the Director of Field Operations for the CCB in Shenzhen, has seized 700,000 e-cigarette products, including e-liquid and hardware, between March 29th and 30th, without prior notice to any affected company in the sting operation.

 

[Zakillah]

Is it 1.April somewhere already? (hopefully?)

 

[tw33k]

I found the story here

 

[retired1]

I found the story here

That's a click bait site. Not a valid news agency.

 

[Buckeyevapen]

Retired I hope you are indeed right and this is nothing at all. If need be mods please remove this thread. My intention was not to propagate a non story.

 

[retired1]

Let's put a realistic view on this.

Yes, China owns the tobacco industry lock stock and barrel there. But the amount of money coming in from e-cigarette sales to the country is huge as well. They're not going to just up and shut down an entire industry like that.

 

[puffon]

Let's put a realistic view on this.

Yes, China owns the tobacco industry lock stock and barrel there. But the amount of money coming in from e-cigarette sales to the country is huge as well. They're not going to just up and shut down an entire industry like that.

....especially since their economy is not in great shape now.

 

[skoony]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Is this a legit site or
have I been phished?
[deleted]
Regards
Mike
PS. Fasttech and Heavens gifts are up and running.

 

[puffon]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Is this a legit site or
have I been phished?
E-cig exports banned in China
Regards
Mike
PS. Fasttech and Heavens gifts are up and running.

Legit NYT url:
Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

 

[retired1]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Is this a legit site or
have I been phished?

Another click bait site.

 

[skoony]

Legit NYT url:
Breaking News, World News & Multimedia

Thanks for setting me straight.
I got that link from the original stories web site.
Isn't there some legality issues involved by mimicking
web sites?
Mike

 

[pennysmalls]

How can one tell if a site is a click bait site?

 

[retired1]

You pretty much have to do some digging. The majority of those bogus news sites have a masked registration, which is an immediate indicator they're not on the up and up.

 

[Oliver]

OK. For clarity, it's straight up equine faeces. Had this come out when it was intended (tomorrow, I presume), we'd all know what was up.

It's pretty amazing how much effort's gone into putting this together with all the fake news links, so I'm thinking that there's a commercial reason for it too.

Slightly surprised Spinfuel fell for it (unless, of course, they did it?).

 

[Dougiestyle]

I will be sharing these links on our regional vapers' FB social page tomorrow lol.

 

[zoiDman]

Checkout focalecig.

Best Ecig Online Store - Worldwide Free Shipping - China Dropshipping -Focalecig

 

[Smucky]

It's an april fool.

Here's the aricle -
E-cig exports banned in China

Two things. I'll draw your attention to a certain paragraph:

“The safety and procurement of our industry and employees is always our top concern,” said Xinsha Tobacco Authority Chief Officer Long Dong, in a statement. “For obvious reasons, it is not safe to use e-cigs or other “Vape” related products. We’re equally concerned about the safety risk of using devices that pose fire hazards into the confined spaces inside buses, trains and cars.”

And secondly, the picture at the top of the article is of British police on a motorway last year after some guy's mod got mistaken for a device to be used in a terrorist plot

A guy on a Facebook group I'm in has an online store and obviously gets imports from China. After seeing this article, he gave his contact a call. The Chinese guy's exact words were 'It's the first I've heard of it.'

Hope this helps