Two disciplines govern this topic on this site. First, no certificate numbers are published here; copies are available upon request and are checked at quotation. Second, a mark is only ever attached to a model whose own page lists it. With those rules fixed, the market map below is general orientation - the kind of knowledge that helps you ask the right questions, never a substitute for your compliance review.
The marks, market by market
- Europe - CE + RoHS: CE marking declares conformity with applicable EU directives (safety and EMC among them); RoHS restricts hazardous substances. Most EU-format models in this catalogue list CE; the FAQ states RoHS 2.0 and REACH compliance across products.
- United States - FCC + a safety route: FCC covers electromagnetic emissions; safety evidence typically comes via ETL or UL listings, or a CB report used in the certification file. The catalogue's examples: the 100W flagships list FCC, CE, CB and ETL together; the value-line NHK-X18WU1A lists UL, CB, FCC, CE and PSE - the widest set in its class.
- Japan - PSE: the mandatory mark for electrical appliances, appearing here on the retractable 35W/65W models, the 18W fast charger and the 100W NHK-CG100W2C1A.
- China - CCC: compulsory for domestic sale of in-scope products; the catalogue's CCC listings cluster on the flagships, B-series and retractable models.
- Korea - KC: note the gap honestly: the 45W T series documents a KR plug, but its pages list CE/RoHS - KC scope is a quotation-stage confirmation, not an assumption.
Matching models to markets
The working method: name your market first, then filter the series tables by their certification column, then request the certificate copies for the surviving models and verify holder, scope and address. Models are documented per market reality - the certifications page lists the strongest published examples and the system-level statements the company makes about itself (ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and BSCI, per its profile). A program that runs this sequence before pricing never has to re-quote in week three - the same plug-and-certification discipline the buyer's framework puts fourth, before price, on purpose.
The CB scheme: the quiet accelerator
One instrument deserves explanation because it appears on this catalogue's flagships and puzzles buyers: the CB report. The IECEE CB scheme is a mutual-recognition system for test reports - a product tested once to IEC standards by a recognised laboratory can have that report accepted, with national differences addressed, toward certifications in member countries. A model carrying a CB listing is not “certified everywhere”; it is carrying the closest thing the industry has to a passport. For multi-market programs, CB-listed models compress timelines in a way that never shows in a wattage table - one more reason the flagships' listings (CCC, FCC, CE, CB, ETL together) are a program asset.
Who checks what, and when
Responsibility for market compliance sits with the party placing the product on the market - usually you, the importer or brand. The manufacturer's role is evidence: listings per model, certificate copies on request, test reports behind them. Your role is verification and filing: check the holder name matches the contracting company, the scope covers your model and plug variant, and the standard editions are current for your market's rules. Do this at quotation, while the model shortlist can still change, rather than at the port, where it cannot.
The gap list is part of the map
A credible certification map shows its gaps. Korea's KC is the standing example in this catalogue: a KR plug documented on the 45W T series, CE/RoHS listed, KC to be confirmed. The Middle East, India (BIS) and Brazil (INMETRO) sit outside this catalogue's documented listings entirely - programs for those markets start with a scope question, not a price question. Suppliers who answer such questions with documents earn programs; suppliers who answer with logos earn audits. The map's blank spaces, stated plainly, are how you tell the difference before money moves.
Filing the evidence with the order
Close the loop administratively: attach the certificate copies you verified to the purchase order file, note the per-model listings you relied on, and re-verify on reorder if a model or plug variant changes. Certification evidence has a shelf life governed by standard revisions and scope changes; a program that treats it as living documentation never discovers an expired assumption during a market surveillance visit. That is the unglamorous end of the certification story, and the part that actually protects the business.
Private standards: the layer above the law
Beyond the legal marks sits a private layer buyers underestimate: retailer and platform requirements. Large retailers impose their own recognised-laboratory preferences, documentation formats and sometimes additional testing on top of legal conformity; marketplaces ask for mark evidence at listing time for certain categories. A model whose listings include a widely recognised safety mark and a CB report travels through this private layer with less friction than a legally adequate but thinly documented one - another reason the flagships' broad listings carry commercial value beyond their legal necessity. When you plan a program for a specific retailer, ask for their evidence checklist before the model shortlist, not after; the shortlist may need to be rebuilt around it.
The map, completed, is therefore three layers deep: the law of the market, the private rules of the channel, and the per-model evidence that satisfies both. This post has walked all three; the discipline that connects them is the one stated at the start - per model, from documents, with the gaps named.
Keep the map current as a working document: standards revise, marks evolve (the USB-IF's own certification for chargers and cables is a growing presence in premium channels), and a model's listing set can change between production runs. The annual habit - re-pull the listings for your active SKUs, re-verify one certificate copy per family, refresh the market layer for any new destination - takes less time than a single customs delay and prevents the particular embarrassment of a compliance file describing last year's product. Evidence, like the products it describes, has a production date; treat it accordingly.
Print this map, annotate it with your own markets and channels, and pin it above the desk where quotations are compared. It will pay for its wall space the first time it stops a shortlist from being built on logos instead of listings.
The map is finished where every good sourcing process finishes: with documents in a file, gaps named in writing, and no logo asked to carry weight it was never issued to bear.
Keep the copies with the order, and the argument is over before it starts.