 The mission of the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, or CPSC, is to protect the American public from unreasonable risk of injury and death from consumer products. We do this through efforts such as developing and enforcing mandatory standards for products that Americans purchase every day, conducting recalls of hazardous products, participating in the development of voluntary standards, and product safety education. Import surveillance is an important part of the agency's efforts to prevent non-compliant and hazardous shipments from entering the U.S. CPSC aligns its import surveillance efforts with other federal government agencies that have import safety missions, like the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, to keep American consumers safe. As part of these joint efforts, CPSC actively monitors imported products manufactured for consumer use to ensure they've been tested and certified to meet applicable U.S. safety standards. For regulated products, importers are responsible for issuing a certificate of compliance and for providing the certificate to CPSC and CBP upon request. Currently, CPSC only requests a certificate when a shipment has been identified or stopped at a port of entry. As trade has become more dynamic and complicated over the last decade, including the rapid rise in e-commerce, it has become clear that CPSC needs improved access to information to effectively prevent potential non-compliant and hazardous products from entering the country. For example, the certificates that CPSC currently collects are not in a format where data can be extracted and used for risk analysis. To address these challenges and better protect U.S. consumers, CPSC is excited to announce a program that allows for an easy and efficient way to electronically file, or e-file, certificate data. e-file modernizes the way industry files consumer product certificates and allows CPSC to speed ship and processing at the port, expedites safe products entering the U.S. economy, and increased data collection to support the identification of high-risk imports. As the e-filing program continues toward full implementation, we look forward to working with the trade industry to achieve a more efficient import process that facilitates compliant trade and promotes consumer safety. Not only is e-filing simple, it also provides holistic benefits to companies and consumers. Compliant importers may benefit from e-filing through fewer CPSC holds of their goods at the port, reductions in risk scores over time, and potentially shorter review periods. Many companies already perform their due diligence and take the required steps to ship compliant products. CPSC greatly values these efforts and is implementing the e-filing program to further enable more efficient identification and better focus on non-compliant products. U.S. consumers will benefit from safer consumer goods as e-filing allows CPSC to prioritize higher-risk shipments. CPSC is working to provide efficiencies to the trade industry through e-filing as we partner to ensure products are safe for U.S. consumers. For the most up-to-date information on the e-filing program, or to learn more, visit cpsc.gov forward slash e-filing.