On December 18, 2024, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) approved a final rule to implement electronic filing (eFiling) of certificates of compliance (CoC) for imported consumer products that are subject to a CPSC rule, ban, standard, or regulation (Final Rule). A 24-month effective date will apply to covered consumer products imported into a Foreign Trade Zone.

Currently, importers of regulated products are required to create and maintain CoCs attesting to compliance with mandatory requirements applicable to their products, but a CoC need not be filed at the time of importation. CPSC may request a CoC—and importers must promptly provide it, typically in a PDF or paper format—after staff flags a shipment for examination. The Final Rule will change this. After the effective date, CoC data will have to be electronically filed at the time of entry by transmitting message set data into the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) of the Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Read more here.