- In October 2023, China’s e-cigarette exports to the UK were approximately US$120 million, a month-on-month increase of 4.67%, and a year-on-year decrease of 17.81%; the export volume was approximately 2,980 tons, a month-on-month increase of 3.56%, a year-on-year increase of 1.04%; the export unit price was US$40.33/kg, up 1.62% month-on-month and down 18.65% year-on-year.
- Philip Morris International’s heated tobacco product IQOS ILUMA will be launched in Montenegro this month.
- South Korea’s Donghwa Industry announced that it has signed an exclusive agency agreement with the vapebrand LOST MARY and will add a new product BM3500 within the year.
- New Zealand’s new government stated that it will repeal regulations that prohibit the sale of tobacco to people born after 2008 (“Smoke-free Generations”regulations).
- The Russian Ministry of Health stated that it does not support a ban on the sale of nicotine-containing and nicotine-free e-liquids.
- Brazil’s National Health Supervision Agency (ANVISA) will hold a public meeting on December 1 to discuss the country’s future policy onvapes.
- The British Trading Standards Agency seized a batch of illegal tobacco and vapesworth £50,000 (approximately RMB 450,000) from a tobacco retail store in Stoke-on-Trent.
- Vietnamese police smashed a production line producing cannabis vapesand arrested six suspects in a continuous operation.