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Regulated Goods Glossary
24 terms from the Commerce book's Regulated Goods part, each defined in a line and linked to the chapter that explains it.
- 25(b) (minimum-risk pesticide): a product with only EPA-listed low-risk ingredients and a conforming label, exempt from federal registration but not necessarily from state registration (Pesticides, Chemicals & Hazmat).
- Adult signature: a carrier delivery service that requires a recipient 21 or older with ID; required for alcohol and tobacco shipments (Alcohol, Tobacco & Age-Restricted Goods).
- Buyers Guide: the FTC-required window sticker on a used vehicle stating its warranty terms, part of the sale contract (Automotive Retail).
- CARS Rule: the FTC's 2023 auto dealer rule on offering prices and add-on consent, vacated by the Fifth Circuit in January 2025 (Automotive Retail).
- Children's Product Certificate (CPC): the importer's or manufacturer's certificate that a children's product passed third-party testing to every applicable rule (Product Safety, Compliance & Recalls).
- Dealer management system (DMS): a car dealer's system of record for vehicles, deals, F&I, accounting, service and parts (Automotive Retail).
- Dealer reserve: a dealer's share of the difference between a lender's buy rate and the contract rate on a loan it arranged (Automotive Retail).
- eFiling (CPSC): filing certificate data electronically with CBP at import, required from July 8, 2026 for most products (Product Safety, Compliance & Recalls).
- EPA registration number: the number on a registered pesticide's label identifying the product, distinct from the establishment number of the factory (Pesticides, Chemicals & Hazmat).
- FFL transfer: shipping a firearm bought online to a federal firearms licensee in the buyer's state, who runs the background check and hands it over (Alcohol, Tobacco & Age-Restricted Goods).
- F&I (finance and insurance): the dealership office that arranges financing or a lease and sells add-on products (Automotive Retail).
- Limited quantity: small inner containers of certain hazardous materials shipped under relaxed DOT rules with a dedicated mark (Pesticides, Chemicals & Hazmat).
- Monroney label: the federally required window sticker on a new vehicle with its price, equipment and safety ratings (Automotive Retail).
- Package tag (cannabis): the state-issued, often RFID, identifier on each cannabis package that every movement and sale is reported against (Cannabis & Hemp).
- PACT Act: the federal law requiring online sellers of cigarettes and vapes to register, report every shipment monthly to each state, verify age and use adult-signature delivery (Alcohol, Tobacco & Age-Restricted Goods).
- Proposition 65 warning: California's required warning before significant exposure to a listed chemical, shown online before purchase (Pesticides, Chemicals & Hazmat).
- Purchase limit (cannabis): the most a customer may buy per day or transaction by category, computed from each product's equivalent weight (Cannabis & Hemp).
- Recall: a corrective action to stop sale, notify buyers and remedy a hazardous product, accounted for unit by unit (Product Safety, Compliance & Recalls).
- Restricted use pesticide (RUP): a pesticide that may be sold only to or for use by certified applicators (Pesticides, Chemicals & Hazmat).
- Safety data sheet (SDS): the 16-section hazard document for a chemical, which distributors pass to business customers (Pesticides, Chemicals & Hazmat).
- Section 15(b) report: the duty of anyone in a product's chain to tell CPSC within 24 hours of information suggesting a substantial hazard (Product Safety, Compliance & Recalls).
- Seed-to-sale tracking: a state system that follows every cannabis plant and package from planting to sale, such as Metrc (Cannabis & Hemp).
- Three-tier system: the post-Prohibition structure separating alcohol producers, wholesalers and retailers (Alcohol, Tobacco & Age-Restricted Goods).
- UN3480 / UN3481: the UN numbers for lithium-ion batteries shipped alone (including power banks) and packed with or contained in equipment (Pesticides, Chemicals & Hazmat).