This can be good and bad.
Good that it will help weed out the absolute garbage and little guys throwing together crap and knock offs.
Bad that the companies that are already established and have put millions into R&D & facilities to produce 'quality' gear (as quality as it can get for China - thinking of Lost Vape, WOTOFO, etc) will now have to wait for an inspector to come by, nitpick their manufacturing process and delay sales for ??months??
From what I found, it looks like the tobacco tax in China is 20% so that's not a terrible increase but it will depend on how much they have to pay to be licensed, inspected, etc as to how much prices will climb. This could really push the prices up and cause a significant delay in US companies restocking.
This might extinguish a lot of the garbage disposables that so many use and lead to panic buying. Which might, in turn, put more pressure on the mod users as many will have no choice but to switch over, depleting the supply while we wait for inspections/licensing and new shipments to arrive
The no online sales... How are US companies going to buy products if not online? or does this just mean no online RETAIL sales - Sourcemore, FastTech, etc?
What a mess!!!
Wishing I had bought about 5 grand worth of gear 2 weeks ago - to resell in a few months when supplies are gone!
EDIT: OH CRAP - just read the part about the 36% levy on ecig imports - OUCH
Hopefully another country will pick up the slack but then we are faced with dealing with a whole new set of issues and manufacturing defects/learning curve.