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What is STMA licence?

An STMA licence is the production authorisation issued by China's State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, which regulates e-cigarette manufacturing and export.

Last checked 11 October 2026

Also calledState Tobacco Monopoly Administration

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Why it matters

Since 2022 Chinese factories need STMA authorisation to produce and export vaping devices legally, so its absence from a factory's record is a specific, checkable gap.

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.

  1. Administrative Measures for Electronic Cigarettes (电子烟管理办法), unofficial English translation

    The instrument behind the licensing requirement, in translation. It covers manufacture for export as well as for the domestic market, which is why an export-only plant is inside its scope.

  2. Bird & Bird, e-cigarette products will enter a new regulatory framework in China

    Law-firm analysis; the adoption date of 11 March 2022 and the effective date of 1 May 2022 are taken from it and from the translation above.