Glossary
What is Export licence?
An export licence is the authorisation a Chinese manufacturer needs to ship regulated goods, including vaping devices, to overseas buyers.
Last checked 11 October 2026
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Why it matters
A factory without one must export through a licensed intermediary, which is why an exporter of record and the actual manufacturer are so often different companies.
Sources
Every claim on this page about a statute, an agency instrument or a tariff instrument rests on one of these, and each one is a document you can open. Where a claim could not be checked against a source, it was removed rather than hedged.
Export of e-cigarette products is inside the licensing regime rather than outside it, which is the basis for treating a missing export authorisation as a checkable gap.