The providence of Ontario Canada has announced a new ruling on labeling and reporting 'electrical products' on manufacturers, importers, distributors, retailers, Certification Organizations and field evaluators. You can read for yourself at www.esasafe.com the regs. What we see plain and simple is a back door, Yearly, tax and reporting and another certification sticker required by a Province. Our products sold into Canada, have ETLc electrical certification, and CSA, now this new redundant requirement intrudes on
anyone wanting to sell into Ontario. If every state and province in the world required the same regulations, we would have to have a 2ft x 4ft, back panel to hold all the stickers. It is beyond absurd... but law!

HIX will register as a manufacture (required by APRIL 1, 2009). We can not cover our distributors that resell into Ontario. Those that do so are required to register and comply per the regs. Therefore, if you sell and don't have the documentation, sticker, and reports etc the product will be stopped at the border and returned to you. Now you see the TAX and supporting bureaucracy being placed on importers (because Ontario, as a Province can't impose duties). We can not drop ship for you... as you are the 'seller of record' and as such you must comply. In the end this all cost money and as such the user in Ontario will burden this cost. Effective April 1, 2009 HIX will, on our shipments into Ontario, charge $35/ per product sold into Ontario.