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The one Amazon export that carries your compliance attributes as well as your copy. One file, exported by you, no password, no API key, nothing written back to any listing.
Seller Central → Reports → Inventory Reports → “Category listing reports” → Request report
The drop-down entry carries Amazon’s own label, “Category listing reports”, singular “listing” and plural “reports”. The report it generates is the Category Listings Report; if you scan the menu for that exact string you can miss it.
Set Status = All, and set any other drop-downs to the widest option they offer. Amazon documents only the Status filter on this report, and it already defaults to active, inactive and incomplete listings. Allow time: Amazon says generation “can take up to three days depending on catalog size”, so request it and come back rather than waiting on the screen. Older Seller Central layouts reach the same dropdown through Inventory → Inventory Reports.
It should be there already: the report is included with Professional selling accounts, with nothing to switch on. If your dropdown does not show it anyway — a case sellers have occasionally reported without a published explanation — open a Seller Support case and ask for access to the Category Listings Report. Sellers report it is granted in hours. One seller-forum reply says access lasts about a week, so download the file the same day it appears.
Inventory and business reports carry identifiers, price and quantity. The Category Listings Report also carries the attribute columns the platform’s own compliance checks read. If you want to know what an enforcement bot will see, this is the file that shows you.
| What it is | Column, in Amazon’s spelling |
|---|---|
| Your SKU | item_sku |
| Title, description, bullets, search terms | item_name, product_description, bullet_point1…5, generic_keywords |
| Category or product type | item_type_keyword, feed_product_type, recommended_browse_nodes |
| Marketplace or store | marketplace |
| EU responsible person | dsa_responsible_party_address |
| Manufacturer reference | gpsr_manufacturer_reference |
| Safety attestation | gpsr_safety_attestation |
| Uploaded compliance document | compliance_media_source_location1 |
| Batteries | batteries_required, lithium_battery_energy_content |
| Dangerous goods | supplier_declared_dg_hz_regulation |
| Country of origin | country_of_origin, also numbered
country_of_origin1 |
| Prop 65 | california_proposition_65_compliance_type and the chemical-names column beside it |
| Children’s products | age_range_description, cpsia_cautionary_statement |
| Barcode | external_product_id |
Those names are Amazon’s own, verified against its flat-file-to-JSON mapping workbook read Aug 9, 2026. Which of them a given report actually contains is a different question, and it has not been settled against a real Category Listings Report: the origin and barcode columns are the open ones. Where a column is absent, every check that reads it renders NOT EVALUATED, never a pass.
Two of those do more work than the rest. The category column decides whether a children’s-product, food, deposit or dangerous-goods rule applies to a row at all, so if it is missing a whole family of checks goes silent at once. The title, description and bullets are what keyword and claims checks read.
A filtered export is a smaller answer, not a faster one. Filter to one category or to active SKUs only, and every check that reads what you filtered out goes quiet. Quiet is not clean: a column that is absent can only honestly come back as not evaluated, never as a pass.
Both produce a clean-looking file and no error.
12" Skillet, Cast Iron has done exactly
this on a real export: the description landed in the responsible-person column, and a row that
should have failed looked fine. If you open the file to look at it, close it without
saving.A zip of the original is fine. A re-export is fine. A re-save is not.
Drop the file on the scan page and it is scored in your browser tab: every flagged SKU comes back with the rule it breaks, the reason, and the fix, and nothing you drop on it is uploaded. Or email the file to audit@trypronoia.com for an audit, free for our first sellers, one each.