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Children's Product Certificate.
the US certificate a decorator acquires by importing rather than by manufacturing
A CPC certifies that a children's product complies with every applicable US children's product safety rule, based on testing by a CPSC-accepted third party conformity assessment body. The CPSIA tracking label is the mark on the garment; this is the paper behind it, and they are separate duties that shops treat as one. Who owes it is the trap: 16 CFR 1110.7 puts the obligation on the importer for a finished product manufactured outside the United States, so a shop buying blank children's tees from abroad has taken on the certificate whether or not it calls itself a manufacturer. The certificate has to name the rules, the testing body with its address, and the date and place of testing, which means it cannot be written after an inspector asks for it. A decorator leaning on the blank supplier's certificate is leaning on a document about the blank, and the print is what the rules are about.