Documents Needed in China

6. Medical Prescription

If you take prescription medicine with you, be sure you take your prescription with you. Make sure also that the medicine is in the prescription bottle it was dispensed in. There are several reasons for this. The first is that customs want to make sure you are not bringing drugs into their country. Second is that if you return to the USA with some of them they want to know what you are bringing in. Most countries in the Far East do not have the prescription drug situation as does the USA. In Thailand and Hong Kong most everything can be bought without prescription and cheaper. However you need to know what strength.