CPSC & SBM

This is not a requirement to sell or be compliant in Canada. If you would like to sell your products to the USA, however, you should apply for a Small Batch Manufacturer number through the Consumer Product Safety Commission. It allows you to use the certifications from the companies that you purchase materials from. If you don't have this number and you want to legally sell in the USA, you have to have everything tested for yourself, and that can get quite costly.

Start Here!
This link will take you to the CPSC Business Portal. 

• click on Register Today
• read and acknowledge the terms
• fill out the forms to request a business account user ID

They will get back to you relatively quickly, but you might receive something like this. 

What do you do? We haven't made a letterhead yet!

It's actually very simple, and you don't need anything fancy. You can type up your letterhead in a couple of minutes and send it back to them. The header is optional, I just thought it looked pretty. The important stuff is in the body, and all you have to do is copy it with your information where I purpled mine out.

Print it, sign it, and fax or e-mail it back to them within 5 days, and you'll eventually get an e-mail back with instructions to set up your account. 

Once you're logged in to the CPSC Business Portal, the only thing you have left to do is click on the button that says Small Batch Manufacturers, answer the three questions and wait for your SBM number. It should come almost instantly.  And you're done!

Spend some time on the CPSC Website, there's a lot of useful information there.