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Lab Test CPSC eFiling Data

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) requires all brands and retailers importing regulated consumer goods into the United States to electronically file product certificate of compliance data before shipment. Inspectorio supports this requirement through the Rules & Regulations configuration, where you define how certificate data from your lab tests is mapped to the data fields required by the government's eFiling systems.

Once your data mapping is configured, you can retrieve structured, CPSC-compliant certificate data for one or more lab tests through the Inspectorio API. The response is formatted according to the filing method you specify, so you can deliver it directly to your customs broker, submit it to the CPSC Product Registry, or pass it to your own internal systems.

Precondition​

  • Generate an API key for your organization and use it to authenticate your API requests.
  • The lab test must be in Completed status.
  • The lab test entity type must be Style or Item.
  • If the lab test entity type is Style, filingLevel must be style.
  • The authenticated organization must have an active CPSC template configured for the requested method.

Get CPSC eFiling Data​

Inspectorio supports three CPSC eFiling methods.

  • CPSC Product Registry: The CPSC Product Registry is a government system where you pre-register certificate data for products you plan to import repeatedly. Filing to the Product Registry in advance means that at the time of each actual import, you only need to reference the registered data rather than submit the full certificate information again. The API response from Inspectorio for this method is already formatted to match the exact data structure required by the government, so you can use it for direct submission without reformatting.

  • Reference PGA Message Set: The Reference PGA Message Set is a short data submission made to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)'s Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) system at the time of import. It references product data that was previously filed in the CPSC Product Registry, so it contains far fewer data fields than the Full PGA Message Set. All values in the API response are automatically converted to uppercase as required by the government's eFiling specification.

  • Full PGA Message Set: The Full PGA Message Set is used when you file all certificate data directly with the CBP's ACE system at the time of import, without pre-registering in the Product Registry. This method is suited for non-repeat imports or for importers who prefer a single-step filing process managed through their customs broker. All data in the Full PGA Message Set response is automatically converted to uppercase, as required by the government's eFiling specification.

To retrieve CPSC eFiling data and for additional guidance, use the Get CPSC eFiling Data API endpoint.