Technical Barriers To Chinese Traditional Medicine Export

As the tendency"returning to the nature"prevailing all over the world, traditional herbs medicine trade has developed quickly. The sale of traditional herbs medicine has increased greatly in recent years. Traditional herbs medicine has been used in Germany, China and India for a long time. And now 40 percent traditional herbs medicine is being sold globally. Traditional herbs medicine is being accepted by more and more people. As a kind of substitute therapeutics, it has been acknowledged by some international and national organizations such as WHO, FDA and so on. Being accepted by bigger and bigger markets, but facing changing markets and strengthening supervise, our Chinese traditional medicine enterprises must prepare for the future strategically. For example, the Chinese herbs growing enterprises, Chinese patent medicine manufacturing enterprises.The studying objective of this paper is the technical barriers to Chinese traditional medicine. On one hand, through the medicine trade, we can know more about technical barriers. On the other hand, basing on the thoughts that knowledge is for practice, I hope I can give some useful advice for increasing our Chinese traditional medicine export.The main body of the paper consists of four parts. In the first part, the technical barriers to Chinese traditional medicine are introduced. First, I give the definition of technical barrier. Technical barrier can be known from two aspects: board sense and narrow sense. Narrow sense for technical barrier means some technical regulations, rules and procedures for eligibility...