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American Electronic Cigarette Distributors have invested a great deal of personal wealth and time to bring electronic cigarettes to the American market. Starting in 2007 with only a few clients to now in 2013, there are now over 4 million Americans using the electronic cigarette to transition from traditional tobacco cigarettes. With a market size approaching $1billion, Chinese manufacturers of the "e-cig" are now choosing to circumvent American firms that built and invested in their businesses and buy space at American Trade shows to sell directly to the same firms American firms are marketing.
We, The Tobacco Vapor Electronic Association and signed electronic cigarette companies, are asking the entities that own and operate the trade shows, TPE, ASD NATO and NACS as examples, to not accept any Chinese manufacturer of electronic cigarettes as attendees of their shows by having booths or attending and soliciting show attendees by walking the floor.
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February 17, 2013
I have been hearing from so many of you about the frustration of seeing these booths pop up everywhere and it is honestly wild how clearly everyone sees the same problem with these manufacturers cutting out the distributors who did the actual legwork. I am currently putting together a formal packet to send over to the show organizers because we simply cannot let this keep happening while we try to maintain a fair market for American firms.
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its not right that they just bypass us when we did all the legwork to build up the brand here. trade shows should be for the people who actually built the industry.
TOTAL BS. we pay for booths and deal with customs just for them to undercut us on our own home turf? need to shut this down now.
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
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American Electronic Cigarette Distributors have invested a great deal of personal wealth and time to bring electronic cigarettes to the American market. Starting in 2007 with only a few clients to now in 2013, there are now over 4 million Americans using the electronic cigarette to transition from traditional tobacco cigarettes. With a market size approaching $1billion, Chinese manufacturers of the "e-cig" are now choosing to circumvent American firms that built and invested in their businesses and buy space at American Trade shows to sell directly to the same firms American firms are marketing.
We, The Tobacco Vapor Electronic Association and signed electronic cigarette companies, are asking the entities that own and operate the trade shows, TPE, ASD NATO and NACS as examples, to not accept any Chinese manufacturer of electronic cigarettes as attendees of their shows by having booths or attending and soliciting show attendees by walking the floor.
Updates
February 17, 2013
I have been hearing from so many of you about the frustration of seeing these booths pop up everywhere and it is honestly wild how clearly everyone sees the same problem with these manufacturers cutting out the distributors who did the actual legwork. I am currently putting together a formal packet to send over to the show organizers because we simply cannot let this keep happening while we try to maintain a fair market for American firms.
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It is disgusting to have to compete with our manufacturers after we have spent a great deal of time and money in negotiating with them in their country and then having to compete with them in the market here in the USA. At the International Vapor Expo in Chicago last week it seems like at 50% of the exhibitors were from Shenzhen, a number, that we have purchased from. I would think that they would understand the consequences of what they are doing but somehow they seem to not want to compete fairly with their main source of business. I very much agree with this petition and support a ban.
its not right that they just bypass us when we did all the legwork to build up the brand here. trade shows should be for the people who actually built the industry.
TOTAL BS. we pay for booths and deal with customs just for them to undercut us on our own home turf? need to shut this down now.
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It is disgusting to have to compete with our manufacturers after we have spent a great deal of time and money in negotiating with them in their country and then having to compete with them in the market here in the USA. At the International Vapor Expo in Chicago last week it seems like at 50% of the exhibitors were from Shenzhen, a number, that we have purchased from. I would think that they would understand the consequences of what they are doing but somehow they seem to not want to compete fairly with their main source of business. I very much agree with this petition and support a ban.