eBay U.S. Bans Sales of Airbags and Inflators
Starting September 24, 2026, eBay’s U.S. site will prohibit the sale of airbags, airbag inflators and related products, and remove unresolved listings.
What are the key facts?
- 1eBay’s U.S. site will implement the sales ban starting September 24, 2026
- 2Airbags, airbag inflators and related products are prohibited
- 3The platform may remove unresolved listings
- 4Some related parts may require prior approval
What happened?
An eBay community announcement states that, starting September 24, 2026, the U.S. site will prohibit all sellers from listing or selling airbags, airbag inflators, gas generators and steering-wheel airbag covers. The announcement gives sellers approximately 30 days to make corrections and says the platform will remove related listings that are not handled in time. In principle, whether sellers delete the listings themselves or eBay removes them will not negatively affect their account policy-compliance history; however, relisting them later may lead to selling restrictions. For certain related parts on the U.S. site that do not contain airbags or inflators, such as crash sensors, diagnostic modules and passenger sensors, sellers may also need to obtain approval in advance. The policy primarily affects automotive dismantlers, auto-parts wholesalers, used-parts sellers and cross-border auto-parts sellers. Sellers need to review active, draft, scheduled and multi-SKU listings.
What does this mean for cross-border sellers?
Starting September 24, 2026, eBay’s U.S. site will prohibit listings or sales of airbags, airbag inflators, gas generators and steering-wheel airbag covers. Affected sellers should immediately clear these auto-parts listings. Unresolved listings may be removed, relisting them may lead to selling restrictions, and some parts without airbags or inflators may require prior approval.
What should sellers do now?
- 1This week, export active, draft, scheduled and multi-SKU listings on the U.S. site, identify airbags, airbag inflators, gas generators and steering-wheel airbag covers, and delete them all. Create a cleanup checklist, with completion defined as having no affected listings in any of the four page types.Listing character checker
- 2For U.S. auto-parts listings involving crash sensors, diagnostic modules and passenger sensors, verify one by one whether prior approval is required and create a product-to-approval-status table. Completion requires a clear approval conclusion or follow-up item for every relevant SKU.Listing Optimizer
- 3Review listing templates, scheduled tasks and multi-SKU variations for the auto-parts store, remove rules that could automatically relist prohibited products, and retain deletion records. Completion requires that no template or task points to any of the four prohibited product types.