Amazon Canada Strengthens Compliance Requirements for Lithium Battery Products
Amazon Canada is strengthening safety compliance for rechargeable lithium battery products, including manuals, labels, and genuine technical documents, test reports, or certification materials.
What are the key facts?
- 1Amazon Canada is strengthening safety compliance for rechargeable lithium battery products
- 2Relevant notifications will be phased in from September 30, 2026
- 3Sellers must provide appropriate-language manuals, labels, and compliance documents
- 4Failure to complete TIC verification may result in immediate listing removal
What happened?
Amazon Canada recently notified sellers that it will strengthen product safety compliance requirements for smart home devices and consumer electronics using rechargeable lithium batteries. Relevant requirements will be communicated in phases starting September 30, 2026, with notifications expected to be completed by November 16, 2026. Applicable products include security cameras, video doorbells, smart locks, air-quality monitors, game consoles, tablets, Bluetooth speakers, headphones, monitors, sensors, and certain curtain-control devices. Sellers must provide manuals and labels in the language appropriate to the country of sale and submit unmodified, genuine, valid, and non-AI-generated technical documents, test reports, or certification materials. If verification cannot be completed through the TIC process in Product Compliance, the relevant listing may be immediately removed and will not be restored until the documents are completed. The change particularly affects cross-border sellers in China and other parts of Asia selling lithium battery products to Canada.
What does this mean for cross-border sellers?
Amazon Canada will phase in stricter safety compliance for smart home and consumer electronics products with rechargeable lithium batteries, and incomplete documents may result in immediate listing removal. Sellers should prepare the required language-specific manuals, labels, and genuine, valid technical documents, test reports, or certification materials in advance through the TIC process in Product Compliance.
What should sellers do now?
- 1This week, screen Canada listings for products with rechargeable lithium batteries, create a product list, mark whether manuals, labels, test reports, or certification materials are complete for each item, and produce a gap list.Listing character checker
- 2Prepare manuals and labels in the language appropriate for the country of sale for Canada listings, compare them with the listing materials item by item, create a complete submission package, and verify that the content is unmodified and not AI-generated.
- 3Submit genuine technical documents, test reports, or certification materials for priority listings one by one through the TIC process in Product Compliance, save the verification results, and place items that cannot be completed on a remediation list.