Your certificates, prepared before your shipment lands.

Since July 8, 2026, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission requires certificates of compliance for imported consumer products to be filed electronically with U.S. Customs through the CPSC Product Registry. Children’s products need a CPC, a Children’s Product Certificate. General-use consumer products need a GCC, a General Certificate of Conformity. The filing applies per shipment, not once per product.

Yes. Apparel is subject to the flammability standard 16 CFR 1610, and most adult apparel needs a GCC filed at entry. Certain fabrics are exempt from flammability testing based on fiber content and weight, but the certificate requirement still applies. Which of your SKUs fall on which side of that line is exactly what our catalog review answers.

A CPC covers children’s products and must be backed by testing at a CPSC-accepted laboratory. A GCC covers general-use consumer products. Both certificates identify the product, cite each applicable CPSC rule, and state the manufacturer, the date and place of manufacture and testing, and contact details for the person who keeps the test records.

If you are the importer of record for your FBA shipments, yes. The rule applies to you like any other importer. Whether your products need a CPC or a GCC depends on the product category. If you are not sure which side of that line you are on, that is what the free triage call is for.

Your shipment can be held at the port while the paperwork gets sorted out, and the CPSC warns those delays can reach 60 days. More serious cases carry the possibility of seizure and penalties, and marketplaces can suspend listings while documentation is outstanding. The fix is correcting the certificate data and refiling, which is why the data is worth preparing carefully the first time.

It depends on the product. Children’s products require testing from a CPSC-accepted laboratory, so the question becomes whether your existing reports come from an accepted lab and cover the rules that apply. For apparel, some fabrics are exempt from flammability testing entirely. This is a per-product answer. Bring your existing reports to the triage call and we will look at what you have.

It is the system through which certificate data is filed electronically with U.S. Customs. The information gets entered field by field, and it is an easy place to slip up: the certificate can be right while the filing data is wrong. Preparing that data correctly is one of the things MadeProof does.

Yes, on a later timeline. Goods entering from foreign trade zones have until January 8, 2027 to comply with the eFiling requirement. Everything else about the rule works the same way.