Announcement on the Tightened Control of Car Safety Seats on AliExpress

Dear sellers,

Car safety seats sold to the EU, US and Russian markets must comply with the local laws and regulations. The quality of non-compliant Car safety seats cannot be guaranteed, and selling these products may lead to serious consequences including government regulatory penalties and legal actions. In order to further ensure the quality of car safety seat products sold on AliExpress, improve buyers' shopping experience, and meet compliance requirements, the platform will strengthen the control over Car safety seat products from November 16, 2020.

I. Scope

The control scope covers all car safety seat products, including but not limited to safety seats, infant Car safety seats, and booster seats. Common Car safety seat products are as follows:

II. Requirements

Car safety seat products must be listed in the following category: Mother & Kids >> Car safety seats & Accessories >> Child Car Safety Seats. For Car safety seats sold to Europe, the United States and Russia, sellers shall upload their ECE certification, FMVSS 213 test report and the EAC certification respectively with a packaging photo clearly shows the manufacturer information and certain certificate mark.

AliExpress has launched the control of car safety seats sold into the US in accordance with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) in April 2020. The platform plans to launch the EU certification control over newly listed and/or edited Car safety seat products from November 16, 2020. Products that fail to obtain the ECE certification on and before November 30, 2020 will be blocked from the EU market. The compulsory control time of Russian EAC certification is subject to further announcement.

Fabric cushions cannot be used as children's car safety seats. Therefore, sellers must not mislead consumers by advertising or suggesting in any form such as text, pictures and product attributes that fabric cushions can be used in vehicles for safety purposes. Such products shall be listed under the following category: Mother & Kids >> Safety >> Toddler Seat Mat.

III. Violations and penalties

1. Car safety seat products that do not meet the requirements of the US FMVSS 213 will be geo-blocked to the US market.

2. Car safety seat products that do not meet the ECE certification requirements will be geo-blocked to the EU market.

3. If a safety seat product is not listed in the specified category, it will be subject to the following penalties:

For the first violation, the product will be temporary removed (but editable); for the second violation, it will be deleted.
4. If a fabric cushion product is claimed to have functions of safety seats in any form, it will be deleted. For a seller with repeated violations, the penalty will be upgraded: The products will be deleted with one point punishment.

For accounts with severe violations, the platform will impose penalties in accordance with AliExpress Rules on Handling Severe Disruption of Platform Order:
Serious violation: 12 points/time, freezing the AliExpress account for seven days;
Extremely serious violation: 48 points/time, closing the AliExpress account.

 

Thank you for your attention and support. 

 

For more export regulations on children products, please refer to the following link:

https://sell.aliexpress.com/zh/__pc/uOfdQPEM73.htm?spm=5261.ams_103714.0.0.4aae4e6f2QVfKe

 

 

AliExpress 

September 27, 2020