To Sablebrush52
I originally read the FDA Deeming Rule as excluding pipes, but that is not the case. Page 4 of their reads as follows:
While FDA currently has authority to regulate cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, and smokeless tobacco under chapter IX of the FD&C Act, under the final rule, all additional tobacco products that meet the statutory definition, except accessories of those newly deemed tobacco products, will be subject to chapter IX of the FD&C Act and its implementing regulations. These products include cigars, pipe tobacco, water pipe tobacco, electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) (including e-cigarettes), and other novel tobacco products such as
certain dissolvable products and gels.
These products further include components and parts of the newly deemed products, including pipes, e-liquids, atomizers, batteries, cartomizers (atomizer plus replaceable fluid-filled cartridge), tank systems, flavors for e-liquids, vials that contain e-liquids, programmable software, flavor enhancers for waterpipe tobacco, waterpipe cooling attachments, water filtration base additives,
flavored waterpipe tobacco charcoals, and waterpipe
bowls, valves, hoses, and heads.
regulatory impact analysis
See also the following link
FDA Regulation of Pipe Tobacco It specifically states "This includes components and parts such as pipes, but excludes accessories such as lighters."
As to importers of tobacco blends needing to register by 12/31, the registration rule applies to Domestic manufacturers of tobacco products. Other parts of the rules do apply to importers, such as labeling and Premarket Tobacco Applications. "Every person who owns or operates any domestic establishment engaged in manufacturing regulated tobacco products must register. . ."
Registration and Product Listing for Owners and Operators of Domestic Tobacco Product Establishments