China, Hong Kong SAR with exports of 11,883.8 k US$ in 2024 and 444.0 k US$ in Jan 25 - Sep 25
Some of Aldi's store-brand foods were bestowed with Product of the Year and Best New Product awards for 2025
Most consumption taxes are regressive, but they still have a role in a broader system of tax and transfers that is almost invariably highly progressive

Aotearoa New Zealand had a vaping prevalence of 1.4% in 2015/2016[xxiii] - this was in contrast to the UK, which in 2016 had a legal vape market and a vaping prevalence four times that of Aotearoa New Zealand at 5.7%.[xxiv] Following legalisation of nicotine-containing vaping products in 2018, Aotearoa New Zealand experienced a rapid uptake of vaping, to the extent that vaping product use has, as of 2022, overtaken tobacco smoking in Aotearoa New Zealand, according to the latest data from the New Zealand Health Survey.[xxv] Shortly after the legalisation of nicotine vaping products in Aotearoa New Zealand, a 2019 survey of current and former smokers in 14 countries,[xxvi] including the USA, Australia and China, found that Aotearoa New Zealand had the second highest prevalence of vaping among ex-and-current- smokers, second only to the United Kingdom
Most of the initial niggles from nicotine gum are temporary