Selling on Amazon.ca is not a copy of Amazon.com: one account covers both, but taxes, fulfilment, delivery times and labelling all change at the border.
Applies in: across Canada
One seller account covers both countries, but almost nothing else carries over unchanged. With a North America Unified Account you can switch in Seller Central between Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, and Amazon.com.mx, and Amazon charges no extra monthly subscription fee for adding Canada to an existing US Professional selling plan. That is the easy part. The hard parts are the ones that sit outside Seller Central: Canadian tax registration, cross-border delivery times, who acts as importer when stock enters Canada, and bilingual labels.
The cleanest way to think about it is two routes. Remote fulfilment keeps your stock in the United States and lets Amazon ship across the border order by order. Canadian FBA puts your stock in a Canadian fulfilment centre, which buys you domestic delivery speed and saddles you with the full Canadian setup. Most sellers should test with the first route and only take on the second when Canadian sales justify it.
In Seller Central, use the marketplace switcher to move to Amazon.ca. Your US listings do not simply appear there on their own: you list in the .ca marketplace, and you need to check that each product is allowed there. Canada has its own restricted and prohibited product lists, and a product that sells freely in the United States can be restricted north of the border. Check the product first, list second.
Price in Canadian dollars, and allow for the border: a remote-fulfilled buyer pays import fees and waits for a cross-border delivery.
North America Remote Fulfilment (NARF) is Amazon's cross-border route for US FBA sellers. Once you enrol, Amazon creates offers for your eligible listings on Amazon.ca, and those offers can carry the Prime badge. When a Canadian customer orders, Amazon ships the unit from your US FBA inventory and handles customer service and returns. The customer pays the import duties and taxes as the importer of record. The Remote Fulfillment costs replace the US FBA costs and the referral fee for that order.
Use NARF as a test, and read it as one. If a product barely moves on Amazon.ca after a fair listing and a fair price, sending a pallet of it to a Canadian warehouse will not fix that. If it sells steadily despite the slower delivery and the import fees, that is the signal to look at Canadian FBA.
This is the step to get right before inventory crosses the border, not after. The CRA's small-supplier rule says you are no longer a small supplier — and must register for GST/HST — once your total revenues from taxable supplies, plus those of your associates, go over $30,000 in a single calendar quarter or over the last four consecutive calendar quarters. That figure covers your taxable revenues generally, not just your Amazon.ca sales, so a seller with other Canadian revenue can cross the line sooner than their Amazon dashboard suggests.
You can register voluntarily before you hit $30,000. The trade is straightforward: once registered you must charge, collect, and remit GST/HST on your taxable supplies, and you have to stay registered for at least one year before you can ask to cancel. In return you can claim input tax credits on GST/HST paid on purchases tied to your commercial activity. Whether that trade helps you depends on your costs and your sales mix, which is why this guide sticks to the process and leaves the call to you and, if you use one, your accountant.
Two practical points follow. First, set your tax settings in Seller Central and give Amazon your GST/HST number once you have one, so its tax calculation matches your registration. Second, remember that GST/HST is only the federal layer. Provinces have their own sales taxes, and how those are collected on a given order depends on the channel and the destination. Do not assume one registration covers every tax question.
An English-only box that sells fine in the United States is not ready for Canada. Under the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act and its regulations, a prepackaged consumer product must carry three declarations: the product identity (its common or generic name, or its function), the net quantity (in metric units where the product is measured by weight or volume, or by count), and the dealer's name and principal place of business.
All mandatory label information must appear in both English and French, except the dealer's name and address, which may appear in either language. That exception is narrower than most sellers expect: product identity and net quantity both need both languages. Directions for use, feature lists, and marketing copy are not federally required to be bilingual, but if a sector rule (food, drugs, cosmetics, or hazardous products, for example) requires a warning or direction, that material follows its own rule.
Get the artwork fixed before production, not after arrival. Stickering units one by one after they land in Canada is slow, error-prone, and easy to get wrong on a whole shipment. If you import the goods yourself, the label should also show who is responsible in Canada — "Imported by" or "Importé par" followed by the Canadian dealer's details is the usual form.
Quebec deserves a separate check. Federal bilingual labelling is the floor, not the whole story, and Quebec's language rules go further on packaging and on French-language listings and customer-facing material. If Quebec is a meaningful part of your Canadian sales, check its rules before you scale there rather than treating a federally compliant label as the end of the job.
Canadian FBA is the point where you stop being a US seller who ships to Canada and start being a seller with stock in Canada. Selling through Canadian FBA means importing commercially: you need to become a Non-resident Importer so deliveries to Canadian residents are delivery duty paid, and you or your broker acts as the importer of record.
That change brings a chain of obligations with it. You arrange the cross-border shipment and the customs paperwork, or your broker does. You hold GST/HST registration as above. Your stock carries bilingual labels. Your pricing now has to absorb Canadian fulfilment and storage fees instead of US ones, and those fees vary by size and weight — check the current schedule in Seller Central rather than budgeting from a blog post's example.
The payoff is real: domestic delivery speed, no import-fee surprise for the buyer at checkout, and a listing that competes on speed with other Canadian sellers instead of losing to them on it. But it is a payoff you buy with setup cost and ongoing compliance. A seller doing a handful of Canadian orders a month gains little from it and takes on all of it. A seller doing steady Canadian volume gains the delivery edge that remote fulfilment can never offer.
The United States side is the baseline most readers already know: one large market, domestic FBA delivery, state-by-state sales tax rules, and English-only labels. Canada adds a smaller market reached through a second storefront on the same account, a choice between remote and in-country fulfilment, federal GST/HST registration at the $30,000 threshold, provincial sales taxes on top, bilingual mandatory labelling, and importer status once stock is held in the country.
None of that makes Canada a bad market. It makes it a market that punishes the assumption that it is just the United States with a different currency. Sellers who test with NARF, register for GST/HST on time, print bilingual labels before shipping, and move to Canadian FBA only when the orders are there tend to find the border manageable. Sellers who ship English-only stock into a Canadian warehouse and sort the paperwork out later tend to find the border expensive.
First, name the provincial layer properly. GST/HST is only the federal layer. Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador charge a single combined HST rate. British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba charge a separate provincial sales tax on top of GST, and Quebec charges QST. Alberta, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut have GST only, with no provincial sales tax. How much of that Amazon calculates, collects, and remits for you depends on the channel and on whether you have given Amazon your registration number, so confirm in Seller Central's tax settings what Amazon is calculating for each destination province before you set Canadian prices.
Second, check whether each product can use Remote Fulfillment at all. Amazon's Remote Fulfillment with FBA page lists three ineligible classes for Canada: restricted products, prohibited products, and dangerous goods. A product that sells freely in the United States can still fall into one of those classes for Canada. Before enrolling, check the product's eligibility in Seller Central through the ASIN Eligibility Report, in the Remote Fulfillment with FBA section under Reports. If a product is ineligible, NARF is not the route for it, however well it sells in the United States.
Related guides: how to register for GST/HST in Canada, how to charge GST/HST in Canada, how to file a GST/HST return in Canada, how to get a business number in Canada, how to open a Canadian business bank account as a non-resident.
| Adding the Amazon.ca storefront to a US Professional account | No extra monthly subscription fee |
|---|---|
| NARF orders | Remote Fulfillment costs replace the US FBA costs and referral fee for that order; the customer pays import duties and taxes |
| Canadian FBA orders | Canadian FBA fulfilment and storage fees apply instead of US fees; check the current schedule in Seller Central |
| GST/HST registration threshold | $30,000 in taxable revenues in one calendar quarter or over four consecutive quarters |
Per-unit FBA and NARF fees vary by size and weight, so check the current fee schedule in Seller Central before you set a Canadian price. No per-unit fee is quoted here because the schedule changes and the rate depends on the item.
No. A North America Unified Account lets you switch between Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, and Amazon.com.mx inside Seller Central, and Amazon says there is no extra monthly subscription fee for adding Canada to an existing US Professional selling plan. You still have to list in the .ca marketplace and meet Canada's product rules — the account is shared, the storefront is not automatic.
NARF lets you sell on Amazon.ca from your US FBA inventory without shipping stock into Canada first. Amazon creates offers for your eligible listings, ships orders from US fulfilment centres, and handles customer service and returns. The customer pays the import duties and taxes as the importer of record. The trade-off is speed: delivery takes longer than a domestic FBA order, and the customer pays import fees.
Under the [CRA's small-supplier rule](https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/forms-publications/publications/2-2/small-suppliers.html), you must register once your taxable revenues, plus those of your associates, go over $30,000 in a single calendar quarter or over the last four consecutive calendar quarters. You can also register voluntarily before you hit that line, but then you must charge, collect, and remit GST/HST, and you have to stay registered for at least one year before you can ask to cancel. This is a process summary, not tax advice — check your own position with the CRA.
It depends on the channel. On NARF orders, the customer pays the import duties and taxes as the importer of record, and you do not pay Canadian tax on the order. Once you hold stock in Canada and sell through Canadian FBA or merchant fulfilment, your own GST/HST registration and filing position matters, and you should confirm in Seller Central's tax settings what Amazon is calculating for you and what you still have to remit yourself.
For a prepackaged consumer product, yes for the mandatory information. Under the [Consumer Packaging and Labelling Regulations](https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/C.R.C.,_c._417/section-6.html?txthl=official), all mandatory label information must appear in both English and French, with one exception: the dealer's name and principal place of business may appear in either language. The three declarations are product identity, net quantity in metric units, and the dealer's name and address. Extra material such as marketing copy is not federally required to be bilingual, though Quebec has its own language rules to check separately.
Start with NARF if you are testing whether Canadians actually buy the product. It needs no Canadian warehouse, no importer setup, and no separate stock pool. Move to Canadian FBA when Canadian orders are steady enough that faster domestic delivery is worth the extra setup: Non-resident Importer status, an importer of record, duty-paid delivery, GST/HST registration, and bilingual labels on stock held in Canada.