Alibaba’s platform strictly prohibits the sale of e-cigarette products. Where can they find the raw materials?

Alibaba.com’s international trade platform has indeed recently strengthened its control measures on e-cigarette products. The specific details are as follows:

Platform Sales Ban Policy

Domestic Sales: Effective May 1, 2022, Alibaba.com has completely banned the sale of e-cigarette products (including cartridges, devices, accessories, atomizers, and nicotine), and restricted their advertising.

US Market: Starting October 2025, Alibaba.com will implement traffic blocking and credit insurance order blocking for e-cigarette products on its US platform, suspending orders for e-cigarettes and accessories shipped to the US.

Scope of Control
The sale of combined e-cigarette products such as cartridges, atomizers, and disposable e-cigarettes is prohibited. Only devices and accessories (such as atomizers and batteries) that have passed qualification approval are allowed.

E-cigarette products are prohibited from participating in any marketing or promotional activities, including major sales events, live streams, and advertisements.

Other Restrictions
The ban covers multiple countries including the United States, Canada, and Australia. Individual approval is required for some countries. Personal shipments of e-cigarette products must comply with customs limits (e.g., limited to 2 e-cigarette devices per item, and e-liquid volume not exceeding 12ml).

Background Reasons: Primarily due to stricter U.S. regulations on e-cigarettes (e.g., Trump’s ban, health risks to teenagers) and tightening domestic policies (e.g., Shenzhen’s tobacco control regulations).

Alibaba’s platform strictly prohibits the sale of e-cigarette products. We cannot publish information about flavorings for e-cigarettes, nor can we describe flavoring-related vape, e-liquid, e-juice, e-cig, e-cigrette…, Eg: Xi’an Taima suply concentrate flavors, cooling agents, sweeteners since 2008, now we can’t describe these products as having any relation. not only Alibaba.

How can e-cigarette manufacturers find material suppliers?

1. Use keywords with “Taima”, Taima has been supplying concentrate flavors, cooling agents, sweeteners for vape e-liquid for more than 17years, will keep supplying in a long future. so you can seach: Taima flavor, Taima cooling agents, Taima powder sweetener, Taima ice flavors, Taima fruit flavors…,This way, you can find the right suppliers without using any prohibited words.
2. View image，we even can’t show any words about vape e-liquid on product pictures, in this case, There was a faint wisp of Fog. If an ordinary flavor’s picture has a bit fog or smoke, it meas a flavors for vape e-juice.
3. Sometimes, you can see a “Flavors for -liquid juice”, or”flavors for juice liquid”, “flavors for liquid juice”, mostly flavors for vape e-liquid(see picture below).