Foreign Trade Zone withdrawals and CPSC eFiling from 8 January 2027

The two dates

The September 2025 correction to the certificates of compliance rule set a single effective date of 8 July 2026. Applicability is 8 July 2026 for everything except FTZ entries. For products entered from a foreign trade zone for consumption or warehousing, applicability is 8 January 2027.

CPSC's Quick Start Guide gives the same two dates.

Sources: Federal Register: Certificates of Compliance, correction (90 FR 45917); CPSC eFiling Quick Start Guide

What this means if you use an FTZ

If you store goods in an FTZ and withdraw them for US consumption, the certificate data requirement applies to those withdrawals from 8 January 2027. The importer is the certifier for imported regulated products, so the certificate work is yours whether goods enter directly or from a zone.

Which entry paperwork your FTZ operator and broker file for a withdrawal, and when, is between you and them. CertPrepy does not build entry data.

Sources: Federal Register: Certificates of Compliance, correction (90 FR 45917); Federal Register: Certificates of Compliance (90 FR 1800)

Use the time before the date

The certificate and the three Registry IDs do not depend on how the goods enter. You can build and certify them now, then hand them to your broker.

• Check which products need a certificate.
• Collect current test reports from a CPSC-accepted lab for children's products.
• Create and certify the records in the Registry.
• Give your broker the Certifier ID, Product ID and Version ID for each product.

Sources: CPSC eFiling Quick Start Guide; CPSC: eFiling and the CPSC Product Registry

Related date: de minimis

Separately, the de minimis tariff exemption has been suspended by executive order since 29 August 2025 and ends by statute on 1 July 2027, according to Troutman's reading of the law. It is a tariff matter, not a CPSC one, and the CPSC rule has no de minimis exemption either way.

Sources: Troutman: the $800 free pass is gone (18 Aug 2026); CPSC eFiling Quick Start Guide