CPSC Eyes February 2016 for Pilot on Electronic Filing of Certificates of Compliance

The Consumer Product Safety Commission now wants to have its pilot program on electronic filing of certificates of compliance up and running by February 2016, according to comments from Carol Cave, CPSC director-import compliance, at a Feb. 11 meeting of the CBP Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations in San Francisco. The agency hopes to engage with COAC to develop the pilot, which came in response to concern from industry over a 2013 proposal to require electronic filing of certificates with entry documentation (see 1411100043). Given the tight timeline, CBP hopes to set up a work group at COAC “over the next couple weeks,” said Cave.