{
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
 "attribution": "ComplyGoods (https://complygoods.com)",
 "updated": "2026-09-22",
 "name": "CPSC eFiling market size (CPSC estimates)",
 "source": {
  "title": "Federal Register: Certificates of Compliance, 90 FR 1800 (8 Jan 2025)",
  "url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/08/2024-30826/certificates-of-compliance"
 },
 "note": "CPSC regulatory estimates made before the rule took effect; not observed counts.",
 "figures": [
  {
   "key": "small_importers",
   "value": 246438,
   "unit": "firms",
   "label": "Small importers affected by the rule",
   "location": "FRFA Table 2"
  },
  {
   "key": "small_importers_children",
   "value": 211148,
   "unit": "firms",
   "label": "of which import children's products (CPC)",
   "location": "FRFA Table 2"
  },
  {
   "key": "small_importers_general",
   "value": 35290,
   "unit": "firms",
   "label": "of which import non-children's products (GCC)",
   "location": "FRFA Table 2"
  },
  {
   "key": "small_businesses_total",
   "value": 273061,
   "unit": "firms",
   "label": "Small businesses affected, importers and manufacturers",
   "location": "FRFA Table 2"
  },
  {
   "key": "small_manufacturers",
   "value": 26623,
   "unit": "firms",
   "label": "Small domestic manufacturers affected",
   "location": "FRFA Table 2"
  },
  {
   "key": "cpc_respondents",
   "value": 224000,
   "unit": "respondents",
   "label": "Respondents eFiling Children's Product Certificates",
   "location": "PRA Table 14"
  },
  {
   "key": "gcc_respondents",
   "value": 40665,
   "unit": "respondents",
   "label": "Respondents eFiling General Certificates of Conformity",
   "location": "PRA Table 13"
  },
  {
   "key": "filings_total",
   "value": 57500000,
   "unit": "filings / year",
   "label": "eFilings per year, all message types",
   "location": "PRA, footnote 31"
  },
  {
   "key": "filings_registry",
   "value": 2300000,
   "unit": "filings / year",
   "label": "Product Registry filings",
   "location": "PRA, footnote 31"
  },
  {
   "key": "filings_full",
   "value": 1700000,
   "unit": "filings / year",
   "label": "Full PGA Message Sets",
   "location": "PRA, footnote 31"
  },
  {
   "key": "filings_reference",
   "value": 46500000,
   "unit": "filings / year",
   "label": "Reference PGA Message Sets",
   "location": "PRA, footnote 31"
  },
  {
   "key": "filings_disclaim",
   "value": 7000000,
   "unit": "filings / year",
   "label": "Disclaimer Message Sets",
   "location": "PRA, footnote 31"
  },
  {
   "key": "cpc_responses",
   "value": 34055116,
   "unit": "responses / year",
   "label": "CPC eFiling responses",
   "location": "PRA Table 14"
  },
  {
   "key": "gcc_responses",
   "value": 23491168,
   "unit": "responses / year",
   "label": "GCC eFiling responses",
   "location": "PRA Table 13"
  },
  {
   "key": "small_importer_certs",
   "value": 214806,
   "unit": "certificates / year",
   "label": "Certificates created annually by small importers",
   "location": "FRFA Table 3"
  },
  {
   "key": "active_gccs",
   "value": 597202,
   "unit": "certificates",
   "label": "Active General Certificates of Conformity (June 2024)",
   "location": "Recordkeeping analysis"
  },
  {
   "key": "fee_per_filing",
   "value": 0.77,
   "unit": "USD",
   "label": "Average broker fee per certificate filing",
   "location": "FRFA footnote 56"
  },
  {
   "key": "fee_cap_entry",
   "value": 25,
   "unit": "USD",
   "label": "Assumed maximum broker fee per entry (Beta Pilot brokers)",
   "location": "FRFA footnote 56"
  },
  {
   "key": "filings_per_cert",
   "value": 23.7,
   "unit": "filings / certificate / year",
   "label": "Filings each certificate generates a year",
   "location": "FRFA footnote 57"
  },
  {
   "key": "cost_small_importer",
   "value": 1104,
   "unit": "USD",
   "label": "Average first-year cost per small importer",
   "location": "FRFA, Table 10 text"
  },
  {
   "key": "cost_small_importer_gcc",
   "value": 1137,
   "unit": "USD",
   "label": "for importers of non-children's products",
   "location": "FRFA, Table 10 text"
  },
  {
   "key": "cost_small_importer_cpc",
   "value": 1099,
   "unit": "USD",
   "label": "for importers of children's products",
   "location": "FRFA, Table 10 text"
  },
  {
   "key": "cost_small_total",
   "value": 272180000,
   "unit": "USD",
   "label": "First-year cost to all small importers",
   "location": "FRFA, Table 10 text"
  },
  {
   "key": "minutes_per_filing",
   "value": 0.37,
   "unit": "minutes",
   "label": "Estimated time per eFiling action (22 seconds)",
   "location": "PRA"
  },
  {
   "key": "api_build",
   "value": 9750,
   "unit": "USD",
   "label": "Estimated cost to build a Product Registry API integration",
   "location": "Response to comment 53"
  },
  {
   "key": "api_maint",
   "value": 2880,
   "unit": "USD / year",
   "label": "Estimated annual maintenance of that integration",
   "location": "Response to comment 53"
  }
 ]
}