CPSC’s eFiling goes live as the border gets a lot more data-hungry

Key takeaway: Compliance certificates that used to sit in a filing cabinet must now flow through ACE at the moment of entry. For importers, brokers, and forwarders, this is another layer of pre-arrival paperwork in an already punishing regulatory season.

Yesterday, July 8, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CSPC) mandatory eFiling program went live, and every importer bringing a CPSC-regulated consumer product into the country must now electronically submit certificate of compliance data before goods enter US commerce.