Smuggling of e-liquid is concerned
In the past few years, the investigation and punishment of smuggling and importing e-liquid will often be exposed, and even the time of smuggling and importing e-liquid has attracted the attention of CCTV.
In a certain issue of CCTV's financial channel "Economic Information Network", the incident of smuggling and importing e-liquid was broadcast.
CCTV also mentioned in the broadcast that my country's regulations on vape are basically blank, and proposed to improve the regulatory shortcomings of the domestic vape industry as soon as possible.
In fact, compared with other countries, the supervision of the domestic vape industry needs to be more cautious. After all, more than 80% of the world's vape and e-liquid are produced in China. The vape industry provides the country with rich foreign exchange. If the supervision is too strict It is likely to destroy the industry and cause heavy losses in foreign exchange, and if the regulation is too relaxed, it will not play a role in regulation.
Imported e-liquids are sold at high domestic prices and are highly profitable, so many businesses are more willing to sell imported e-liquids, but due to policy gaps, the import application procedures are cumbersome and irregular. Driven by high profits, some merchants take risks to smuggle e-liquid. In fact, if the procedures for importing e-liquid are clear and regulated, many merchants are willing to import e-liquid through formal channels. However, time is a business opportunity, and many merchants are compelled to do so. Choose smuggled.
What is lacking most in the vape industry now is regulation and standards. Although the regulation and standards of the domestic vape industry will become official in a few months, it will take a lot of time for the entire industry to fully integrate.
In any case, the regulation has arrived, and the smuggling of e-liquid should be unlikely to happen again in October, because the source of each licensed merchant can be traced back to the source, as long as it passes the inspection of the vape store. The source of the imported e-liquid can easily determine whether the imported e-liquid has compliance procedures.
However, as the so-called loss-making business is not done, there is a beheading business. Therefore, as long as the smuggling of e-liquid still has huge benefits, the smuggling of e-liquid will not be completely eliminated.
In China, there is a stereotype that imports represent good quality, especially products such as e-liquid, whose safety cannot be detected by appearance. This product will be inhaled into the body, and its safety is unacceptable. disregard. The domestic stereotype of domestic e-liquid is poor quality, so it is very important to change the domestic user's stereotype of e-liquid.
I think the biggest enemy of smuggling e-liquid is domestic e-liquid manufacturers. If domestic e-liquid can surpass imported e-liquid in terms of quality, taste and price, then imported e-liquid will basically not survive in China. There is room. Even if the supervision is no longer strict, the profit of smuggling and importing e-liquid will be gone, then the smuggling of e-liquid will be completely eliminated.