Mills, the director of TRAFFIC's Hong Kong office and an expert on the use of bear gall in Asia, acknowledges that many countries are involved in its trade, but she notes that after permitting visits to the mainland, Taiwan became "the principal consumer market for poached and farmed mainland bear gall."
雖然牽涉熊膽交易的國家很多，南韓更被視為熊膽消費量首屈一指的地區；但多年來調查亞洲使用熊膽情形的野生動植物交易調查委員會成員苗朱迪指出，「開放大陸探親後，台灣已成為大陸熊膽黑市交易與養殖場的最主要消費者。」