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Summer vacation is the peak season for Chinese people to travel abroad. Before sending medicines back home, tourists should apply for an import consent form from the Food and Drug Administration in accordance with the "Measures for the Administration of Drug Samples and Gifts". If passengers or transportation service personnel return to the country with medicines for personal use, , and should also comply with the specifications of the "Limited List of Drugs for Self-use by Inbound Passengers". If drugs are sent to the country without approval or are brought into the country in excess quantities and are involved in buying and selling, if they are prohibited drugs under Article 22, Paragraph 1, Paragraph 2 of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, the maximum penalty is a fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 10 years. The banned drugs were confiscated and destroyed.

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When Chinese people travel to Japan, they often make large purchases at drugstores. In addition to buying the goods for their own use or giving them to relatives and friends as souvenirs, they may also buy them on behalf of others or sell them online after returning to Taiwan. However, Recently, there have been many cases of people breaking the law due to ignorance of the law, and being reported by netizens and subsequently entered into criminal investigation procedures.

According to Article 22 of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law: “Prohibited drugs as mentioned in this Law refer to drugs that fall under any of the following conditions: 1. The manufacture, dispensing, import, export, sale or display of which is prohibited by an express announcement from the central health authority Poisonous drugs. 2. Drugs imported without approval. This does not apply to drugs imported for personal use by passengers or transport service personnel. Announcement.", Paragraph 1 of Article 82 of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act: "Anyone who manufactures or imports counterfeit drugs or banned drugs shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than ten years and may be fined not more than NT$100 million.", Pharmaceutical Affairs Act Article 8 Article 83, Paragraph 1: “Anyone who knowingly sells, supplies, dispenses, transports, stores, preserves, transfers, or displays drugs with intent to sell them shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than seven years, and may also be fined NT$ "A fine of less than 50 million yuan." It can be seen that people who go abroad to import drugs for personal use should abide by relevant limit regulations. If they want to import excessive amounts of drugs, they must apply for and obtain approval in advance, otherwise they will be punished for the crime of importing prohibited drugs.

According to Article 13, Paragraph 1 of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, medical devices generally refer to medical devices used to diagnose, treat, alleviate, directly prevent human diseases, regulate fertility, or sufficiently affect the structure and function of the human body, and are not pharmacological, immunological or metabolic. Instruments, devices, utensils, substances, software, in vitro reagents and related items that act on the human body to achieve their main functions, such as blood pressure monitors, blood glucose machines, contact lenses, black pupil magnifiers, tampons, introduction devices, Thermometer, body fat meter, condom, sore patch, abdominal belt, OK stretch, kinesio, contact lens maintenance solution, etc. all belong to this category. Therefore, if the general public has not obtained a medical device license and a drug dealer license, they should not import unapproved medical devices and sell them online. Otherwise, according to Article 84, Paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act: "Unauthorized Anyone who manufactures or imports medical equipment without authorization shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, and may also be fined not more than NT$10,000,000, and who knowingly sells, supplies, transports, stores, maintains, or transfers medical equipment for the purpose of the preceding paragraph. "Anyone who displays it with intent to sell it shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph" and may be prosecuted for the crime of illegally importing or selling unapproved medical equipment.