Draft Amendment of Quarantine Requi rements for the Importation of  
Animals and Animal Products 
 
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The following animals are prohibited from importation: (1) Bats. 
(2) Artiodactyl animals coming from  a country (zone) where has been  recognized as a country (zone) 
infected with foot and mouth disease, rinderpes t, contagious bovine pl europneumonia or African 
swine fever. 
(3) Elephants coming from a country (zone) where ha s been recognized as a country (zone) infected 
with foot and mouth disease. 
(4)Perissodactyl animals coming from a country (zone) where has been recognized as a country 
(zone) infected with glanders. 
(5)Birds coming from a country (zone) where has b een recognized as a country  (zone) infected with 
highly pathogenic avian influenza. 
(6)Bovine coming from a country (zone) where has been recognized as a country (zone) infected 
with bovine spongiform encephalopathy. 
(7) Susceptible animal of a desi gnated epizootic disease coming fr om a country (zone) where has 
been recognized by the central competent aut hority (CCA), by the World Organization for 
Animal Health (OIE) or confirmed from other international informati on sources as a country 
(zone) of the said disease. 
 
Animals described under the first paragraph shall be allowed to be  imported into this country only 
for research purpose with import permits issued by the CCA. 
 
If animals from countries or zones free of the diseases described under the first paragraph are 
transshipped through seaports or airp orts in countries or zones wher e any of the said diseases is 
known to occur, they shall be de emed as originating from infect ed countries or zones and shall 
therefore be prohibi ted from importation. 
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Draft Amendment of Quarantine Requirement s for the Importation of sheep and goats 
 (In case of any discrepancy between the English vers ion and the Chinese text of these Requirements, 
the Chinese text shall govern.)  
  1. Sheep and goats shall be imported only from countries or zones recognized by the Council of 
Agriculture as free from foot and mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious bovine 
pleuropneumonia, and African swine fever. 
 
2 The sheep and goats shall originate from fa rms where have been in compliance with the 
requirements of scrapie free estab lishment of World Animal Health  Organization (OIE) Terrestrial 
Animal Health Code for at least seven years, brucellosis, sheep pox, goat pox, mange, 
tuberculosis, paratuberculosis (J ohne's disease), bluetongue, and hemorrhagic septicemia have not 
occurred in the previous year and contagious pustular dermatitis, enzootic abortion of sheep, 
melioidosis, Maedi-visna, pseudo-rinderpest, leptospirosis, sheep  genital campylobacteriosis and 
Listeriosis have not occurred during the past 6 m onths. In addition, the sh eep and goats shall be 
inspected and found free from clinical evid ence of any communicable disease during the 
pre-export quarantine pe riod prior to shipment. 
 3. The sheep and goats shall originate from states or zones where vesicular stomatitis has not 
occurred in the previous year. 
4. The sheep and goats shall be detained for pre-export quarantine in an approved isolated 
quarantine premises under the supervision of the animal quarantine authorities of the exporting 
country for 14 days prior to shipment. During th e pre-exporting quarantine, the animals shall 
be subject to the following tests with negative results. The intradermal tuberculin test for tuberculosis shall be carried out  within 60-90 days prior to sh ipment and the test interval 
between the said test and the previous one shall exceed 60 days. 
(1) Foot and mouth disease:  serum neutralization test. 
(2) Tuberculosis: intradermal tuberculin test. 
(3) Paratuberculosis (Johne's dis ease): complement fixation test. 
(4) Bluetongue: complement fixation test  and agar-gel immunodiffusion test. 
(5) Brucellosis: tube agglutina tion test with the re sult of serum agglu tination tite r under 50 
I.U. 
(6) Leptospirosis: agglutination-lysis test for Leptospira canicola , Leptospira pomona, 
Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae; otherwise th e sheep and goats should be injected with 
streptomycin (25 mg/kg) twice at an interval of 14 days w ith the second injection given 2 
days prior to shipment.  
(7) Vesicular stomatitis: serum neutralization test. (8) Other diseases and diagnostic  tests provisionally designated. 
The diagnostic tests described above may be exem pted for the countries where, according to the 
report of the OIE or the relevant epidemiologi cal information, have been free from the above 
diseases for more than 5 years. 
 
 25. The sheep and goats shall not be vaccinated agains t foot and mouth disease, rinderpest, or with 
any other vaccine that has not been approved. 
 
6. The sheep and goats shall be transported with clean container and vehicles disinfected with 
officially approved disinfectant. In addition, the sheep and goats sha ll not be transshipped 
through countries or zones where foot and m outh disease, rinderpe st, contagious bovine 
pleuropneumonia or African swine fever is known to occur. No supplementary feed, fodder or 
beddings shall be supplied or other anim als be loaded during the transportation. 
 7. To import sheep and goats, an original veterinary certificate issued by the animal quarantine 
authorities of the exporting country should be pr ovided. The certificate should include dates of 
quarantine detention, dates of sample collections, test methods, dates of tests, test results, and 
the relevant information designated in Articles 1 to 5 of this requirement. 
 
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