Import intelligence for small importers, in one place.
Stuck at customs? Find out why, and by when.
Upload the CBP notice, or answer a few questions. See the hold type, your deadline and the checklist for that kind of hold. A response package for your attorney, $149.
Will Amazon accept your certificate? Check first.
Upload the CPC your supplier sent, the test report and the invoice. See the five things a reviewer looks at, before the review. If the certificate is the problem, get one in your own name for $39.
Fictional example — the product and documents are illustrative; the rules behind each check are real.
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Which step are you on?
Supplier on a blacklist?
Fictional example — “Crestline Textile Manufacturing Co., Ltd.” and “Harbor Lane Goods LLC” are not real companies, and the results shown are illustrative. List names, HTS codes, CFR references and deadlines are real.
Every answer shows the list or rule it came from.
Importing runs on a clock. Your broker files the entry. The legal responsibility stays with you — including the things nobody files on your behalf.
Get the certificate paperwork ready
Formats your data so your filer can reference it at entry.
What this is
Registering a product once lets whoever files your entries reference short Registry identifiers — the Product ID and Version ID — instead of retransmitting every data element each time. Because the version only changes on retest or material change, this is roughly a once-per-product task rather than a recurring one. It is worth doing if you import the same product repeatedly.
What you need
- The four things from the previous step — they cover five of the filing's seven sections
- Your product's HS code, and your own company details as the certifying party — the two sections nobody else can give you
- An account on the CPSC Product Registry
If it's missed
Nothing fails, but every future shipment carries the full data-entry burden again, and each repetition is another chance to transpose something.
Need the certificate in your own name? — $39
Need the certificate in your own name?
Turn your lab's test report into a draft certificate and the CPSC Product Registry file. You or your certifier submit it. $39.
Formats the data entered here into CPSC's own Product Registry upload template, with a companion README, and drafts the certificate itself — a CPC or GCC on the seven elements 16 CFR 1110.11 requires — for the certifier to review and issue. Nothing is submitted to any agency.
The certificate, the test report or the commercial invoice, where on hand — each is read once into the fields it carries, then discarded. A read value is marked until checked and stays editable; the HS code and the safety rules are never set from a document.