Eligibility

There are two types of TIA membership: Regular and Associate.

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 wishing to apply to regular membership, are required to pledge their participation in the ICTI CARE process. The ICTI CARE (Caring, Awareness, Responsible, Ethical) Process is the International Council of Toy Industries' (ICTI) program to promote ethical manufacturing, in the form of fair labor treatment, as well as employee health and safety, in the toy industry supply chain worldwide. Its initial focus is in China, where 80 percent of the world's toy volume is manufactured. Its intent is to provide a single, fair, thorough and consistent program to monitor toy factories' compliance with ICTI's Code of Business Practices (the "Code").

Associate Membership is open to any North American corporation, partnership or individual primarily engaged in the business of:

• Providing 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.
• 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).

NOTE: Associate Members shall not have the right to vote, hold office, or serve as a voting member of the Board of Directors, but they shall have such other member benefits or be entitled to such member services as the Board of Directors may determine.