Toy Certificates by Market

This is the list our partnership agreement works from, market by market.

Note the last row. EAC is obtained through bodies in Kazakhstan or Russia, not by the factory — which is why it behaves differently from everything above it.

Two things are worth reading twice. Europe is better covered than America, which surprises most people — EN71 and REACH are simply the pair factories are asked for most often. And the UK number is a quarter of the EU one, because UKCA is a separate exercise that many factories have not repeated since it diverged from CE.

Not one item in 385,341 carries EAC, and that is the one row in the table which is not a gap.

CE, UKCA, CPC and G-Mark are documents a factory or its laboratory can produce in China. EAC is not. It is granted inside the Eurasian Economic Union, under TR CU 008/2011 «On the safety of toys», by an accredited certification body there. A factory in Chenghai cannot issue it any more than it can issue a Kazakh tax number. So anyone offered «EAC from the factory» should stop and ask where it came from.

We obtain it for you, on your order. Our partnership agreement assigns that step to our side, through certification bodies in Kazakhstan and Russia. It is an ordinary part of an EAEU order rather than a special project: you tell us which models go into the range, we come back with cost and timing, and for straightforward items the work runs in weeks rather than months.

Three things are worth knowing before you plan it. Toys require a certificate of conformity, not a declaration — the lighter route simply is not available for this category. Testing is done in an accredited laboratory, and the documents that go with the application are the technical passport, the safety justification, the instruction manual and the test reports. And the regulation has exemptions: Christmas decorations, collector scale models, playground equipment, sports equipment, folklore dolls, puzzles above 500 pieces and children’s jewellery sit outside it.

The factory reports still matter here. Where EN71 and REACH testing already exists — 34,171 items in this catalogue — much of the underlying work is done, and the certification is faster and cheaper than starting from an untested model.

This is the distinction that costs importers the most money, and it is worth stating bluntly.

A test report says: a sample of this model passed this test on this date at this laboratory. That is a fact about a sample.

Market access is a separate act, and mostly it is yours. CE is a declaration the importer makes and signs. UKCA requires a responsible person established in the United Kingdom; the EU’s GPSR requires one in the EU. EAC is issued locally. SABER is a Saudi portal process. None of these is completed by a Chinese laboratory report, however good the report is.

What the report does is make those steps possible and cheap. Without it you cannot declare anything; with it the declaration is a formality. We count reports on file, and we say so rather than implying permissions we cannot grant.

If you sell in the EU or the US, the documented part of the catalogue is large enough to build a range from: 34,171 and 30,639 items respectively. Ask for the reports before you order, not after.

If you sell in the UK, the Gulf or Canada, the documented subset is smaller — 7,907, 10,219 and 2,515 — so plan the range around what exists, or commission testing on the models you actually want.

If you sell in the EAEU, EAC is part of the order rather than an obstacle: we obtain it through certification bodies in Kazakhstan and Russia once you have chosen the models. Budget it as a step, not a surprise — and note that the factory’s EN71 and REACH reports make that step markedly faster, because the underlying testing already exists.

Testing on a specific model is arranged as part of a production order. AJT Testing Services Limited, a laboratory historically linked with our partner group’s founding family and working in the same Chenghai ecosystem, is accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 and recognised by A2LA, CPSC, CNAS, CMA and FCC.

OPTTOYSCHINA is a wholesale platform operated by OPTTOYSCHINA LLP, Kazakhstan: catalog, requests and product selection. The seller — invoice, payment, export, documents and claims — is our manufacturing partner Yifeng Group, China. The catalogue holds 385,341 items from 5,233 factories, with the price published per piece and per carton, the carton quantity stated and the maker named on every card. The minimum is one factory carton of one model; minimum order total 2,000 CNY (≈ $313).

Our manufacturing partner is Yifeng Group (艺丰集团) in Chenghai, Shantou. The group has worked in Chenghai since 1992; its first plant, Shifeng Culture Development Co., Ltd, dates from that year and runs more than 35,000 m² of production area with an annual output of USD 60 M. AJT Testing Services Limited, founded in 2007 — the first private laboratory in eastern Guangdong to hold the Chinese national CCC accreditation for toy testing — is historically linked with the group’s founding family and works in the same Chenghai ecosystem; the group keeps a permanent 15,000 m² showroom in Shantou with more than 500,000 toy samples. See our factory partner page.

Three limits, stated because a certificate table without them is a sales claim.

We count documents, not testing. A factory may have tested a model and never sent us the report. The true share of tested items is therefore above these numbers, and we cannot say by how much.

We count what is on file today. Reports expire. A count taken in six months will differ, which is why the date is printed at the top of the table rather than left off.

And a set is not a clearance. «EU-ready» above means the item carries EN71 and REACH. It does not mean a declaration has been made, a responsible person appointed, or your specific channel satisfied. Those are steps you take, and we would rather you take them knowingly.

One correction worth recording: our first count of EAEU coverage returned 33,088 items, which would have been excellent news. It was wrong — the search matched the letters «EAC» inside the word «REACH». The real figure is zero. We mention it because a number that flatters you is exactly the one to check twice.