The issue with battery shipment also happened to me as well, as the buyer and potentially as the seller.
All my battery orders from Aliexpress ended in dispute and refund. Some sellers don't even aware that the batteries are supposed to be shipped via surface only.
And the country I live in also have similar restriction, but arguably far worse. It's a criminal offense to ship a battery internationally using national postal service. The enforcement is also inconsistent, sometimes they only ban shipping batteries via AIR/SAL, sometimes they also ban surface shipments as well (citing that IATA somehow has the authority to ban surface shipment...wut?), and somehow they touted surface shipment as the way to ship battery internationally in the other press releases....