CPSC certificates, ready for eFiling.
PortCert is a flat-fee CPSC certificate and eFiling data service for small importers and online sellers: we prepare your Children’s Product Certificate (CPC) or General Certificate of Conformity (GCC) and your eFiling data for $79 per product, in 2 U.S. business days. You review and certify, upload our Product Registry file, and your customs broker files the three identifiers at entry. Send us your factory’s lab test report — or ask us first which tests to order: we check it against every CPSC rule that applies to your product. CPSC has required that data at entry since July 8, 2026, whatever the shipment is worth.
No lab report yet? Our free check tells you which tests your product needs — and which it is excluded from — before you pay a lab.
International mail: CBP moved mandatory Entry Type 13 for regulated mail from October 22, 2026 to January 20, 2027 CBP release, Oct. 14, 2026, and CPSC moved its mail eFiling start to the same date CPSC mail guidance.
$79 per product · 2 U.S. business days · 100% in writing — no calls
Last updated: October 22, 2026
Is your HTS code on CPSC’s eFiling list?
Search all 589 codes of CPSC’s October 2026 list, and see what a match — or no match — means for your certificate.
Selling children’s clothing? Find which lab tests it needs — and which it is excluded from.
Your certificate now travels with the entry.
Certificates for regulated products have been required since 2008 CPSC eFiling FAQ. What is new is that CPSC now receives the certificate data at the border, entry by entry, through CBP’s ACE system 16 CFR 1110.13(a)(1).
Importers eFile certificate data with the entry for regulated consumer products.
Products entered from an FTZ for consumption or warehousing follow on this later date.
Any product that requires a certificate needs an eFiled certificate, regardless of the shipment’s value.
CBP moved mandatory Entry Type 13 for regulated mail from Oct. 22, 2026 to Jan. 20, 2027, and CPSC will require eFiled certificates on mail from the same date. Until then, certificate data goes in the Product Registry before arrival.
CBP release, Oct. 14, 2026 CPSC mail guidance 16 CFR 1110.13(a)(1)
What if the data is missing?
CPSC says it does not intend, for now, to ask CBP to deny entry solely because certificate data was not eFiled, and that ACE will at first send warning messages rather than rejections. It also says it will keep enforcing certificate requirements, keep asking CBP to seize non-compliant products, and use certificate data to score the risk of each entry line CPSC eFiling FAQ. The law itself allows refusal of admission for a product that is not accompanied by a required certificate 15 U.S.C. 2066(a).
Small importers and online sellers.
You bring in consumer products that a CPSC rule covers and sell them on Amazon, Etsy, Shopify, TikTok Shop or your own store. If you are the importer, the certificate is yours to issue 16 CFR 1110.7, even when you rely on your supplier’s testing 16 CFR 1110.15.
Children’s products
- Kids’ clothing and pajamas, including snug-fit sleepwear
- Plush and other toys
- Children’s jewelry and pins
- Baby and nursery products
Adult products under a CPSC rule
- Adult clothing in fabrics that are not exempt from flammability testing
- Mattresses and mattress pads
- Bicycle helmets, rugs and carpets
- Products that contain button or coin batteries
What you receive for each product, in writing.
Each one is checked against the regulation text, and each rule we cite links to it.
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Rule check, with citations
Every CPSC rule, ban or standard that applies to your product, the testing exclusions you can claim, and the rules we checked that do not apply — each with a link to the regulation.
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The certificate — CPC or GCC
Written with every element required by 16 CFR 1110.11: product identifiers, each applicable rule, certifier, records contact, date and place of manufacture, testing, and the attestation. You review and certify it.
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Product Registry import file, with a step-by-step guide
Your certificate data in CPSC’s official CSV bulk-upload template, ready to import into a Product Collection, with an import guide that follows CPSC’s own CSV guide v3. You — or your broker, or a Collection Editor on your side — import it, check it and certify it. We never log into your account.
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Broker-ready sheet
The Certifier ID, Product ID and Version ID for a Reference message set, plus the full data set in case your broker files a Full message set instead.
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Retest calendar — children’s products
Children’s products need periodic third-party testing: at least once a year, or every two or three years under a production testing plan or continued ISO/IEC 17025 lab testing 16 CFR 1107.21. We write the next due date into your file; the Catalog Plan adds email reminders before it.
Fixed prices, in dollars.
Written quote first, then a secure card payment link. If we deliver late, we refund that product’s fee in full.
“Is my product covered?”
- Covered or not, CPC or GCC
- The rules we expect to apply
- Which lab tests to order
Certificate Package
- Rule check with citations
- CPC or GCC, every required element
- Registry import file and guide
- Broker-ready sheet and retest date
Catalog Plan
- Certificate register kept current
- Update files after retests and changes
- Retest reminders by email
What we don’t do.
We would rather say it here than after you have paid.
- Lab testing. A CPSC-accepted laboratory tests children’s products; we tell you which tests to order.
- Customs clearance or filing with CBP. That is the job of a licensed customs broker. We give your broker the data.
- Legal advice. We prepare documents from the regulations and your records.
- A guarantee that your goods will be admitted. CBP and CPSC decide.
- Working inside your Product Registry account. You, your broker or your own Collection Editor imports our file.
- Certifying for you. You review, certify and submit; the certifier stays legally responsible.
Questions sellers ask first.
My shipments are small. Does eFiling still apply?
Yes. CPSC states that there is no Section 321 (de minimis) exemption for eFiling: any product that requires a certificate must have an eFiled certificate, regardless of the shipment’s value CPSC eFiling FAQ. Sales between consumers on a marketplace also count as commercial transactions.
Do you put the certificate into the Product Registry for me?
No — the account and the certification stay in your hands. We deliver the data as a CSV file in CPSC’s official bulk-upload template, with a step-by-step import guide. You, your broker or a Collection Editor in your Business Account imports it, checks it and certifies it CSV guide v3. The certifier remains legally responsible for the certificate 16 CFR 1110.15.
Do you test my product?
No. Children’s products must be tested by a CPSC-accepted laboratory 15 U.S.C. 2063(a)(2). We tell you exactly which tests to order and build the certificate from the lab’s reports. The lab’s fees are paid to the lab.
Send your product tonight. We reply within one U.S. business day.
Photos, materials, where it is made, and any lab reports you have. Our reply names the rules that apply and gives a fixed price — in writing, no call.
Sources read September 26, 2026
- CPSC final rule, Certificates of Compliance, 90 FR 1800 (Jan. 8, 2025)
- CPSC correction to the final rule, 90 FR 45917 (Sept. 24, 2025)
- 16 CFR 1110.13 — Certificate availability and eFiling
- CPSC, eFiling Frequently Asked Questions
- CPSC, Guidance for Mail Shipments on eFiling of Certificates, October 2026 (posted Oct. 20, 2026)
- CBP interim final rule, de minimis suspension for mail and new postal entry process, 91 FR 37801 (June 24, 2026)
- CBP news release, International Mail Entry Type 13 mandatory implementation date extended to Jan. 20, 2027 (Oct. 14, 2026)
- 15 U.S.C. 2066(a) — Refusal of admission
- 16 CFR 1110.7 — Who must certify
- 16 CFR 1110.11 — Certificate content
- 16 CFR 1110.15 — Legal responsibility; reliance on another party
- 16 CFR 1107.21 — Periodic testing
- CPSC, User Guide for CSV Upload v3 (Dec. 2025)
- 15 U.S.C. 2063 — Certificates, third-party testing, tracking labels