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  Annual fees for each member type are defined with the application.
  
  
• Benefits
  
  
• Criteria
  Regular Membership is open to:
  
  
  • Any North American corporation, North American-based partnership, or resident individual actively engaged in the manufacture, importation, sale, licensing, inventing or designing, retailing, independent sales representation.
    
    
  • Any corporation, partnership, or individual based outside North America, with or without offices or warehouses in North America, that or who is actively engaged in the manufacture, importation, sale, licensing, inventing or designing, retailing, independent sales representation and general distribution of toys and kindred lines in the U.S. (except those who are primarily contractors or subcontractors for other toy manufacturers).

NOTE:  Manufacturing companies are required to pledge their participation in the ICTI CARE Process, a program to promote ethical manufacturing, in the form of fair labor treatment and employee health and safety, in the toy industry supply chain worldwide.

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  Annual fees for each member type are defined with the application.
  
  
• Benefits
  Associate Members do not have a vote on matters that arise before the organization, but they do have or are entitled to a range of other member services.
  
  
• Criteria
  Associate Membership is open to:
  
  
  • Any North American corporation, partnership or individual primarily engaged in the business of providing services to TIA Regular Members, including:
    • Professional testing laboratory services.
    • Promoting and marketing children’s toys and other children’s products (excluding promotional premiums).
    • Consulting that relates to toy safety or communications.
    • Working with other trade associations that have overlapping membership or interests and concerns with TIA.
    • Publishing a trade or consumer magazine or newsletter that primarily covers the toy and children’s entertainment industry.
      
      
  • Associate Membership is also open to retired executives from companies that are or were full members of the Association, including: (i) past Association Chairmen; (ii) former Association directors who served two or more terms on the Association Board of Directors; (iii) members of the Toy Industry Hall of Fame; or (iv) anyone from the industry that the Board of Directors determines to be entitled to special recognition (all of the above are eligible once retired from the industry)

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  Annual membership fee $100.00
  
  
• Criteria
  Students enrolled in a full time or part time study program at an accredited post-secondary institution and not employed full-time in the toy industry are eligible for membership with TIA.