18650's not being shipped from China?

[MIDDLER]

Just purchased 20 NCR18650b's on Aliexpress and received notification from the seller that they cannot be shipped to the United States. Anyone else have this problem and will other Chinese sellers ship to the US?

 

[mike3367]

i ordered some 18650 cells and they got stopped/rejected at the air port in china and now the company is saying they are trying to fix problem as of dec 20th

 

[myzter]

damnit

 

[ejonesss]

could you ask the seller to ship them overnight by air freight?

it could be possible that china is hosting some event like the winter olympics that is preventing shipping.

 

[myzter]

batterybro just told me that they cannot ship cells and are working to find a solution... very strange..
I checked with my alibaba supplier that Ive purchased from previously and they said they can ship via HKUPS
$145 shipping for just 50 cells..

 

[amberwolf]

Their customs or shipping controls are probably actually checking things more thoroughly (because they are being checked more thoroughly at destinations?), and now requiring htem to follow the rules, actual certifications/etc. to ship things, and not allowing "toy" as a description for all this stuff anymore. Or they are charging new taxes or fees, raising the prices beyond what these companies had originally gotten away with.


Air freight of batteries is now very expensive, requires certifications by the shipper, etc., and at least here in the USA it's getting hard to even get a shipper to accept batteries at all, even for ground shipments, probably because of the incidents that have happened from poorly constructed/designed/etc packs sent either by themselves or as parts of objects ("hoverboards" come to mind).


It could be something else, but that would be my bet: that the shipping methods previously used can't be anymore, and now it costs too much to ship them.

 

[Hwy89]

Could be the first shot fired in the Trump trade wars.

 

[Alan B]

I had a "lithium cell charger" from china returned to sender a few weeks ago. I suspect anything with the word "lithium" is being bounced. They reshipped with different terminology and it came through.