National Tobacco Monopoly Bureau: Conduct total quantity management of electronic cigarette-related manufacturing enterprises, and legally and compliantly determine production capacity and scale.

The National Tobacco Monopoly Administration is soliciting opinions on amending the electronic cigarette regulatory policy document. To achieve a balance between supply and demand in the electronic cigarette market, total volume management will be implemented for electronic cigarette-related manufacturing enterprises, and production capacity and scale will be legally and regulatively approved. The State Council’s tobacco monopoly administrative department will comprehensively consider factors such as tobacco control, capacity approval, market demand, enterprise orders, and legality and compliance, to categorize and approve annual production scales, which will serve as the upper limit for the corresponding product category’s production transaction volume in the calendar year. Provincial tobacco monopoly administrative departments will organize electronic cigarette wholesale enterprises within their administrative regions to carry out business activities within the sales target for domestic sales within the province (region, city) during the year.