There is no ban on importing vaping gear. Customs can open every vapemail they want and there is nothing they can do about it. And the sales had been done outside of the US. As the FDA only has the power to regulate manufacturing and sales of vape gear inside of the country. And vape development is still going strong. Nothing has slowed down outside of the US at all.Well only in the sense that going through each and every package shipped from a company they believe to retail in e-cig products to individual customers would cripple the ports. But you are silly if you think that China is going to develop hardware that they can't sell to BM or Online vendors and can only sell through companies like FT. You are basically talking about the only legitimate market where people buy from China and only a small portion of that market at that.