Products Brought Back from Mainland China Which Violate Quarantine Regulations Shall Be Confiscated
After the government released restrictions on visits to relatives on Mainland China, many have brought back Mainland products. However, since many people are unfamiliar with domestic regulations concerning the quarantine of Mainland plants and animals, they have often had such items confiscated.
According to present plant and animal inspection regulations of the Bureau of Commodity Inspection and Quarantine, there are many animal products which are prohibited from being brought back to Taiwan from the Mainland. This includes fresh, frozen, or refrigerated meats (with the exception of canned goods which have undergone high temperature sterilization), meat products (including ham and sausages), internals, fresh milk, ground animal bone, animal skins, animal sperm, embryos, and other possibly disease-carrying animals. In addition, dried animal products must pass through methanol disinfection before they will be allowed to enter. Single hoofed and double hoofed species, and birds and fowls are prohibited from entry.
Conditions on Import of Mainland China Publications
The government has decided to allow research organizations to import Mainland China publications. Such publications will be treated in the same manner as other imported, or exported publications. Mainland China publications cannot be imported directly. They must pass through a third country. After permission to publish domestically has been granted, simplified characters must be converted to traditional style characters. Mainland works published in Hong Kong or other areas will be given consideration provided they are printed in traditional characters.
Royalties must be paid to copyright holder through a third country.
Copyrights Must Be Obtained to Publish Mainland China Publications
The Government Information Office has announced that:
1. Those who wish to publish works from the enemy occupied area must first obtain a written contract to do so from the copyright owner, whether it is the author or publisher in a free country or area beforehand.
2. The copyright must be notarized by a notary public and verified by an R.O.C. government organization.
3. The holder of the copyright, whether author or publisher, cannot be a Chinese Communist organization, or a member of such an organization.
4. Those who wish to publish works from the enemy occupied area must register with the Government Information Office. Each application is limited to ten.
5. Those who previously reproduced works from the Mainland must register with the Government Information Office.
6. The content of works from the enemy occupied area shall be limited to technology, art, history, anti-communist writings and related writings.
7. Publishing of works from the enemy occupied area may be distributed in Free China and must carry the name of the original work, its author, the name of the distributor in Free China, the original date of publication, and the date published in Free China.
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