The week's top news in the global electronic cigarette industry
1. China's General Administration of Customs Updates E-Cigarette Export Data for June of This Year
Recently, China's General Administration of Customs (GAC) updated the export data of electronic cigarettes in June this year. The data shows that the export value of China's electronic cigarette products (including electronic cigarettes and similar personal electronic atomisation devices, and other nicotine-containing non-combustible smoking products) in June was 6.575 billion RMB (RMB 65,750,827,818), a decrease of 5.26% from the previous month, and a year-on-year increase of 14.8%.
2. shenzhen,China releases 26.2bn electronic vape exports in first half of 2023
On 25 July, Shenzhen,China Special Administrative Region Newspaper public number tweeted that Shenzhen,China exported 26.2 billion yuan of electronic vapes in the first half of 2023, up 35.8% year-on-year. We queried the data of China's General Administration of Customs and learnt that the national export of electronic cigarettes in the first half of 2023 was 37.78 billion, which means that Shenzhen's export of electronic cigarettes in the first half of this year accounted for 69.3% of the country's total.
3. Deyang,China police broke up a whole industry chain gang of manufacturing and selling counterfeit electronic cigarettes
Recently, the Food, Drug and Environmental Investigation Brigade of Jingyang District Branch of Deyang Public Security Bureau took a suspicious parcel at a delivery logistics point as a breakthrough, and cracked the first case of manufacturing, trafficking and selling counterfeit fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes across multiple provinces and cities across the country, and knocked down a full-chain counterfeiting and selling criminal gang composed of raw materials, equipment supply, production and manufacturing, finished product transportation, and terminal sales, which radiates to Sichuan, Guangdong, Shandong, Hebei, Anhui, Zhejiang and other places. The amount of money involved was more than RMB 6 million.
4. Yiwu, Zhejiang,China Province, seized a case worth more than 1.08 million RMB of sales of illegally produced electronic cigarettes.
In the early morning of July 6, Yiwu Tobacco Monopoly Bureau inspectors and local public security departments to carry out joint law enforcement, in Yiwu, a warehouse seized disposable e-cigarettes 8806, 762 electronic cigarettes, flavoured tobacco cartridges 6,537, a total of 19,611, the amount of money involved in the case of more than 1,080,000 RMB, locking the suspects involved in the case of two. This is the second case of e-cigarettes over one million RMB seized by the Bureau this year.
5. small song shares: has built the electronic cigarette industry chain layout
Xiao Song shares recently said, the company gives full play to its business advantages, and the use of listed companies platform for endogenous and exogenous layout, in the electronic vape nicotine, atomiser, electronic cigarette heating wire, production / OEM, brand holders and other aspects of the electronic cigarette business to build a full industry chain layout.
In the future, the company will continue to rely on the advantages of the layout of the e-cigarette industry chain to create more competitive e-cigarette products, steadily expanding the company's market share of e-cigarettes at home and abroad, and promoting the continuous improvement of the scale of the company's new tobacco industry.
6. Jincheng Medicine: Electronic cigarette nicotine is expected to complete nearly 13 tonnes of orders shipped in June and July
On 25 July, Jincheng Medicine said on the interactive platform that the company has achieved mass production of nicotine for electronic cigarettes, and the sales situation is good. It is expected to complete the order of nearly 13 tonnes of shipments in June and July. The company will expand production according to the newly approved production scale of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, and increase the marketing and sales efforts of the product.
7. FDA issues warning letters to three flavoured e-cigarette distributors
On July 27, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warning letters to three distributors, ABS Distribution Inc., EC Supply, Inc. and Easy Wholesale, LLC, stating that the distributors were selling and/or distributing a variety of unauthorised flavoured e-cigarette products.
The FDA said it has 15 business days from receipt of the warning letters to respond, take steps to correct the violations and prevent recurrence. Failure to correct violations in a timely manner may result in FDA taking enforcement action, such as injunctions, seizures, and/or civil monetary penalties.
8. More than 9,000 types of e-cigarettes on sale in the United States
According to the Associated Press, the number of types of e-cigarettes being sold in the United States has now increased significantly to more than 9,000 due to the large number of unauthorised disposable e-cigarettes entering the US market. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) claimed that they rejected about 99% of the applications for the sale of e-cigarettes and approved only a few e-cigarettes for adult smokers.
9. Russian Customs Seize Smuggled E-Cigarettes Worth 6.5 Million Rubles
Customs officials, along with the Federal Security Service (FSB) and transport police, have seized more than 7,000 smuggled e-cigarettes worth 6.5 million rubles (about $513,000) in the Tomsk region, Russia's Kemerovo Customs Press Service reported. It is understood that the unlabelled e-cigarettes from China were destined for Tomsk shops.