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Children's Product Certificate template: a CPC filled in for each product

Every children's product sold in the United States needs a Children's Product Certificate from its importer or US manufacturer, based on tests by a CPSC-accepted laboratory. From 8 July 2026 importers also file the certificate data electronically with each entry. Enter your products once; the kit writes a certificate per product in English with every element 16 CFR 1110.11 asks for, and the same data as a spreadsheet for the Product Registry or your customs broker.

Checked against the sources on 23 October 2026

The certificates are written in English, as CPSC and US Customs read them. Rule names and the list of open items are in English too.

Finished product certifier

The importer of the product, or its US manufacturer if it is made in the United States.

Person who keeps the records

Name, address, email and telephone of the person holding the test records. A position title, such as Compliance manager, is enough if it is always filled.

The certificate
The filing rules differ: imported products are filed with each entry from 8 July 2026.
Only if the test records are online for CPSC and US Customs to read.

Product 1

The product
Enough to match the certificate to the product, for example: wooden stacking rings, six beech rings on a peg, ages 1 and up.
When the product was made, produced or assembled, written year-month, for example 2026-08.
Manufacturer and place of manufacture

The factory: its name and the address where the product was made.

Tester 1
Children's products need testing by a laboratory CPSC has accepted for each rule that requires third-party testing.
Rules the product is certified to

Choose each rule from CPSC's eFiling citation list. The kit does not decide which rules apply; where CPSC lists a testing exclusion for a rule, you can choose it instead of a test.

    Still to complete for this product:

    • Certifier: name
    • Certifier: street address
    • Certifier: city
    • Certifier: state or province, where there is one
    • Certifier: country
    • Certifier: email address
    • Certifier: telephone number
    • Person keeping the records: name
    • Person keeping the records: street address
    • Person keeping the records: city
    • Person keeping the records: state or province, where there is one
    • Person keeping the records: country
    • Person keeping the records: email address
    • Person keeping the records: telephone number
    • the name of the person signing
    • the title of the person signing
    • the date of the certificate
    • whether the products are imported or made in the United States
    • at least one unique identifier: GTIN, UPC, model number, SKU, serial number, registered number or an alternate identifier
    • a description that matches the certificate to the product
    • the month and year of manufacture
    • the rules the product is certified to, from CPSC's list

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    What is in the files

    • per product, the Children's Product Certificate: the product and its identifiers (GTIN, UPC, model number, SKU or other), the rules it is certified to, the certifier, the person keeping the records, the month and place of manufacture, the date and place of each test, and the attestation of 16 CFR 1110.11(a)(7) word for word;
    • per product, the same data as a CSV file with formulas neutralised, for entering a certificate in CPSC's Product Registry or giving it to your customs broker;
    • a read-me with the filing route (imported, or made in the United States) and every item still to complete.

    Checks the kit makes

    The rules come from CPSC's own eFiling citation list (version of 18 December 2025), and a testing exclusion can only be one CPSC lists for that rule. A GTIN or UPC with a wrong check digit, a date that is not a date, a test dated after the certificate, or a rule that needs third-party testing tested by a party not marked as a CPSC-accepted laboratory is marked TO COMPLETE with the reason. When CPSC's list says a toy gun needs both ASTM F963 4.30 and 16 CFR 1272, the kit asks for both. Nothing is left blank silently.

    Filing from 8 July 2026

    Under CPSC's Certificates of Compliance rule (90 FR 1800, 8 January 2025), importers of regulated products file the certificate data in CBP's Automated Commercial Environment with each entry from 8 July 2026, either in full or by reference to a certificate entered in CPSC's Product Registry. Entries from a Foreign Trade Zone follow on 8 January 2027. Products made in the United States need the certificate when they are distributed, and it must be given to distributors and retailers.

    What the kit does not do

    It does not decide whether a product is a children's product (designed or intended primarily for children 12 years or younger), which rules apply, or whether an exclusion fits: you choose them from CPSC's list. It does not test anything, write tracking labels or warning labels, or file with CPSC or CBP. General Certificates of Conformity for other products are not included.

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