Licensing / Compliance
Compliance with the Electrical Appliance and Material Safety Act for chargers and lithium-ion batteries sold through cross-border e-commerce. From recovering access to the filing system, through preparing the product documentation and filing with METI, to reconciling the records held by customs — completed in about two and a half months.
Client
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7products
Notifications completed
2.5months
From instruction to the last product cleared
Every issue found at the outset bore directly on importing and selling later.
The SMS verification the account had used was no longer available, and until the verification method was changed there was no way to file at all.
Across the seven products, some specifications were stated unclearly and some classifications needed confirming, so nothing could be submitted as a batch.
Late in the work it emerged that the information already registered with customs differed from what was being filed. Left alone, it would have caught up with the goods at import.
Recovering the account and preparing the documentation ran side by side, so the stoppage was as short as it could be.
The product documentation was finished while the change of verification method was still with the authority, so filing could begin the day access came back.
Rather than treating the seven as one submission, we listed what each product needed and filed them as they were settled — so one product coming back did not hold up the rest.
Work continued while the account was out of use, and each point raised in review was answered as it came.
29 May 2025
Work begins on the filing requirements and what the seven products need.
8 June 2025
Moving to verification of the product data and preparation for filing.
12 June 2025
Confirmed that the existing SMS verification was no longer usable.
23 June 2025
Documents prepared and lodged, then with the authority for review.
13 July 2025
Filing conditions recovered and entry of the seven products begins.
14 July 2025
Three products checked, amended and resubmitted.
20 July 2025
All seven now at the re-checking stage.
31 July 2025
Reconciliation begins between the registered information and the filings.
10 August 2025
Data reconciled and every product's procedure closed out.
Notification and the related record-keeping completed for all seven charger and lithium-ion battery products.
What was filed and what is used at import now match, so the difference cannot hold anything up downstream.
On electrical product notifications, what stops the work is more often the filing account and the consistency of the paperwork than anything about the product.
Breaking the seven products into a per-product list, rather than one submission, meant a single product coming back never held up the others.
Reconciling the filing against the customs records is cheaper inside the filing work than it is just before the goods arrive.
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