A Children's Product Certificate (CPC) is a written certificate an importer or manufacturer issues for a children's product, stating — based on testing by a CPSC-accepted third-party lab — that the product meets the children's safety rules that apply to it.
A CPC applies to a children's product: one designed or intended primarily for children 12 or younger that is subject to a children's product safety rule. The certificate lists each applicable rule and certifies the product complies. The requirement comes from Section 14 of the Consumer Product Safety Act, as codified in 16 CFR part 1110.
A CPC must be based on test results from a CPSC-accepted third-party laboratory. This is the main thing that sets it apart from a general-use certificate: a children's product cannot be certified on the manufacturer's own testing alone.
CPSC does not issue the certificate. Under 16 CFR 1110.7 the importer issues the CPC for products made overseas, and the U.S. manufacturer issues it for products made domestically — CPSC writes the rules and can ask to see the certificate, but it approves nothing and hands out no document. The party named as certifier has to be the one that imported (or made) the product: a factory's own certificate counts only where the factory is also the importer. The importer can be a domestic or a foreign company — Amazon's CPC policy says so in as many words — but a marketplace itself may never be listed as the importer, the record holder, or any other responsible party.
There is no required form, but seven elements must be present and accurate — including a description of the product, each safety rule it is certified to, and the accepted lab that tested it. The certificate and its supporting test reports must be in English.
People search for a "CPC template," but there is no official form and nothing to buy. A CPC is a document the importer or manufacturer creates, and what makes it valid is the information on it, not its layout. Under Section 14 of the Consumer Product Safety Act, codified in 16 CFR part 1110, seven elements have to be present and accurate.
Three of those elements are the ones a marketplace or CBP checks most often: a description of the exact product the certificate covers, each children's product safety rule the product is certified to, and the CPSC-accepted laboratory whose testing the certificate rests on. A certificate that is vague on the product, silent on a rule, or missing the accepted lab is deficient even when it looks complete — which is the usual reason a CPC that seems finished still gets rejected.
Holding a CPC a marketplace asked for, or one it sent back? The free CPC Readiness Check reads the certificate, the test report and the invoice and shows the five things a reviewer checks across them — who is named as certifier, whether the product matches, which lab tested it — each cited to the rule.
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Information current as of 2026-09-10.
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This report is an automated, informational screening tool only. Tiana & Co. is not a licensed customs broker and does not conduct customs business. This report does not constitute legal advice, a compliance determination, or a certification of admissibility for any supplier, product, or shipment.
Verdicts in this report are produced by deterministic code, not by a language model. The explanatory paragraph accompanying each check is model-generated and checked against the cited sources before delivery. No part of this report is reviewed by a person before it is issued, so every material finding and citation should be confirmed against the underlying government source before it is relied on.
This report reflects data available as of the report date. The OFAC SDN and Consolidated lists, the other U.S. Consolidated Screening List constituents, the UFLPA Entity List, CBP withhold release orders, CPSC's eFiling list, and regulatory guidance are updated frequently and without prior notice. Users should re-screen periodically and consult qualified counsel for compliance decisions.
Name-similarity results do not establish or rule out the identity of any company. Where multiple similarly named records exist, none should be treated as confirmed without independent verification against the primary government source.
This tool is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a substitute for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or any other government agency. No warranty is made as to the accuracy, completeness, or currency of any finding.
Use of this report for import, procurement, sanctions-compliance, or investment decisions is at the user's own risk. Anyone with compliance obligations under UFLPA, OFAC, or CPSC regulations should consult qualified legal counsel before making a transactional decision.