The rise in electronic cigarettes has been almost entirely driven by a wave of cheap, disposable devices imported from China.
“In a way, we had it good back then, but no one knew,” said Dorian Fuhrman, co-founder of Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes.
The economic barriers to entry are low: Chinese manufacturers offer dozens of designs and flavors for as little as $2 per device when ordering 10,000 or more. The devices sell in the U.S. for $10 to $30. Import alerts are one of the FDA’s strongest tools to block illegal products, but industry experts say they’re easy to skirt.
The company called the FDA’s import ban “capricious” in a statement last month, adding that it “was given no opportunity to address any FDA concerns.” Company representatives did not respond to the AP’s interview requests. Of more than 500 tobacco-related inspections conducted since FDA gained authority over e-cigarettes, only two were in China, according to the agency’s . Those two inspections took place at Shenzhen factories used by major U.S. vaping firms, which have filed FDA applications for their products.
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