Quick answer: For a delivery address in Canada, the orosy order form treats the tax number as optional: it accepts your business number if you hold one, and the order goes through without it. That is a fact about one order form, not about the Canadian import requirement. CBSA states on its CARM page that you need a business number and an import-export program (RM) account before you import or export goods. Sales are on DAP terms, which makes you the importer, so that requirement lands on your side while the order form stays quiet about it. Measured on 12 October 2026, 98,295 products were available for delivery to Canada: stationery, adult apparel, and kitchen and dining.
Key takeaways
- The order form and the border ask for different things. A Canadian tax number is optional on the order form. What CBSA requires of a commercial importer is set out by CBSA, and you are the importer.
- Canada gets more than the United States does. Stationery, adult apparel and kitchen and dining goods all ship to a Canadian address: 98,295 products, measured 12 October 2026. For a US address, stationery only.
- You are the importer of record. Clearance, duty and taxes at import are yours and are not part of the cost billed by orosy. This article links the government sources and states no rates.
- Nothing about the border happens at sign-up: eight fields, no card, no number. A card comes before your first real order, and the shipping figure in the cart is a reference figure rather than the final cost.
- You can search in English, though product names come back in Japanese, and for some products the Japanese term finds more.
The order form and the border ask for different things
This is the part that gets conflated, and it is worth separating before anything else.
What the order form asks. On orosy, a cross-border order carries a tax number for the destination country. For a Canadian delivery address that field is optional: the form accepts your business number (BN) if you have one, and an order placed without one still goes through. That is what the production eligibility check returned for Canada on 12 October 2026.
What CBSA says about importing. The Canada Border Services Agency publishes a page titled CARM: Assess and pay duties and taxes on imported commercial goods. On it, in the entry for its "Register for or modify an import-export program account" service, CBSA states:
You need a business number and an import-export program (RM) account before you import or export goods.
The two are different things: the first is the input requirement of one order form, the second is Canada's own requirement for commercial importers, published by the agency that enforces it.
Why the second one is yours. orosy sells on DAP terms (delivered at place: orosy arranges delivery to your address, and import clearance and duty stay with you). The buyer is the importer of record, so a requirement addressed to the importer is addressed to you, whether or not an order screen mentions it.
We will not tell you whether your business needs to register, or how: CBSA states its own rules properly and your circumstances decide the answer. The point from our side is narrower. The order going through is not evidence that your import side is in order. An optional field is not an all-clear. Read the CBSA material while your account is in review rather than after a pallet of notebooks is in the air.
Where to read CBSA's own rules for importers
CBSA's Guide to importing commercial goods into Canada runs in nine sections. Two of them carry what a first order turns on: Select the duties and taxes that apply is where rates come from, and Set up your business to import is where the business number and the import-export (RM) account sit. The CARM page covers assessing and paying duties and taxes on commercial imports, and carries the sentence set out above.
None of this is legal, tax or customs advice. Where your own circumstances decide the answer, the CBSA guidance linked above and a licensed customs broker are the authorities.
Not every destination treats the tax number as optional
The tax number requirement is set per destination, and Canada sits on the lighter side of it. Measured against the production cross-border eligibility check on 12 October 2026, the destinations we checked looked like this: eight of the roughly forty that have a tax-number rule configured. It is not a complete list of where orosy ships.
| Where you receive the goods | Tax number required to place the order | Numbers accepted |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | No | Business Number accepted if you hold one |
| United States | No | EIN accepted if you hold one |
| Australia | No | ABN accepted if you hold one |
| Taiwan | No | Unified business number accepted if you hold one |
| New Zealand | No | No number type accepted |
| United Kingdom | Yes | GB EORI number or UK VAT number |
| EU countries (measured with Germany) | Yes | EU EORI number or EU VAT number |
| South Korea | Yes | Business registration number or personal customs clearance code |
Where a number is required, an order submitted without it stops with an error. For a UK or EU buyer that gate sits at order time, the subject of our guide to importing into the UK for resale. For a Canadian buyer there is no gate, which is why the sequencing is yours to manage.
Who pays duty and tax at import
You do, and that does not vary by product.
Customs clearance in your country, import duties, and taxes at import are your responsibility. They are not part of the cost billed by orosy. What orosy bills is the goods and the international shipping. Duty, taxes at import and any customs fees sit outside both of those and are settled by you at import.
For the rate on a given line, the authority is Select the duties and taxes that apply in the guide above. This article publishes no rates. A mixed basket of notebooks, aprons and ceramic mugs is three classification questions rather than one, and a figure attached to the wrong classification is worse than none.
For landed-cost arithmetic line by line, our guide to importing Japanese products works one through for an American importer. The shape carries over to a Canadian order; the tariff mechanics do not, because they describe the US schedule.
Product compliance for the Canadian market sits with you as the importer too: labelling, safety rules, and food-contact rules. That is a question for your own regulatory adviser and the relevant Canadian authority.
What a Canadian shop can actually order
Three product groups ship from Japan to Canada: stationery, adult apparel, and kitchen and dining goods. Measured on 12 October 2026, that came to 98,295 products available for delivery to Canada, so over 90,000.
The counts below are what the catalog returned for a Canadian delivery address on 12 October 2026. Each is tied to the Japanese search term shown, was a floor on that date, and moves as the catalog changes.
| Search term | What it means | Products for Canadian delivery |
|---|---|---|
| 文房具 | stationery | Over 50,000 |
| 皿 | plates | Over 6,100 |
| シャツ | shirts | Over 6,000 |
| ノート | notebooks | Over 4,100 |
| ニット | knitwear | Over 3,000 |
| エプロン | aprons | Over 2,900 |
| ワンピース | dresses | Over 2,600 |
| マスキングテープ | masking tape | Over 2,300 |
| マグ | mugs | Over 1,700 |
| ボールペン | ballpoint pens | Over 1,500 |
| 万年筆 | fountain pens | Over 700 |
| 箸 | chopsticks | Over 600 |
The United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand return the same totals as Canada. The United States returns over 50,000 products, because only stationery ships there: 56,607 on the same date. That gap matters, because English-language guides to Japanese wholesale are usually written for American buyers, ours among them. If you receive goods inside Japan instead, the catalog is about 200,000 products.
What does not ship overseas. Liquids and sprays, including detergents, alcohol and oils, are held back at every overseas destination. Children's and baby clothing does not ship, which is why the clothing on offer is adult apparel only. Products whose export classification is not yet settled stay out until it is settled. For the destination-by-destination picture, see what ships to your country.
Three companion guides go subcategory by subcategory: Japanese stationery wholesale, Japanese kitchenware for UK and EU retailers and Japanese adult apparel for the UK, EU and Australia. The last two name other destinations but describe the ranges that ship to Canada too. For brand-level counts, see Japanese stationery and pen brands.
Searching when you do not read Japanese
You can search in English. An English search term is mapped to Japanese search terms, so towel finds Japanese towel listings. Two limits come with that. Only the search term is translated: product names and descriptions come back in Japanese. And the mapping does not hit for every word, so some things are easier to find with the Japanese term, which is why the table above carries them. For the vocabulary a Japanese supplier uses on a price list, see Japanese wholesale terms explained.
How ordering works, start to finish
Japanese suppliers mostly sell through channels built for Japanese retailers, each with its own account process and minimums. orosy negotiates with each supplier and opens the accounts, so a basket drawn from several is one account, one cart and one invoice. orosy arranges international shipping to your country. You do not need a forwarder or a receiving point in Japan. Delivery to a receiving point inside Japan also remains available.
Signing up: the eight fields on the form
The sign-up form asks for eight things:
- Your email address
- A password
- Your company name
- Your business website URL
- A description of what your business does
- The country your business is in
- Your main delivery destination country
- Agreement to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
The business website URL is required, because the review is based on it. With no site of your own, a shop page on a platform or a business account on social media is acceptable.
The main delivery destination country becomes the default destination for the catalog, so a Canadian buyer has Canada already selected and switches it at the top of the screen. After the form you confirm your email with a code, then log in.
There is no set-up fee and no monthly fee. Registration is free and takes no card. A card is needed before you place a real order. Those are two separate moments, and the second surprises people who read the first as covering both.
Business verification, then wholesale prices
Before your first order, orosy verifies your business. Most accounts are approved within about 10 minutes if the sign-up email domain matches the business website or the email is listed on it; otherwise, verification is normally completed within 12 hours.
While the review is pending you can search and place test orders in test mode. Real products and wholesale prices open once you are approved. One German account went from sign-up to a confirmed production order in four days.
Delivery groups, minimums and the shipping figure
A delivery group is orosy's unit for products that ship together from the same source. Shipping fees, any free-shipping threshold and the minimum order amount are set per delivery group. A Canadian order mixing pens from one supplier with mugs from another is two delivery groups, and each has to clear its own minimum.
Before you order, the cart shows a reference figure for international shipping, for your information only. The actual shipping cost is calculated later and billed to you, and it can differ from that figure. Duty and taxes at import sit outside that number as well.
Payment and delivery
Payment is by credit card only, charged when stock is confirmed. You are not billed for items that turn out to be unavailable.
Delivery goes to a business address: a shop, warehouse or office. orosy does not deliver to consumers. You can list products before you buy them. The goods are delivered to your business address, and you pack and ship them to your customer yourself.
For damaged, mis-shipped or short-quantity items, contact orosy within 5 days of receipt for a replacement or refund, as the Terms of Use provide in Article 10.
Ordering through an AI client or by API
Connect from an MCP-capable AI client that lets you set an Authorization header, Claude Code for example. The agent searches, compares and builds the cart. It stops and shows you the order total, and you place the order. Setup is covered in the guide for using orosy with AI, which appears after you log in. The same catalog is reachable three ways, compared in the three ways to order and for the agent route in ordering with AI over MCP. As of 28 September 2026, over 476 businesses had signed up, over 307 had passed review, and over 48 had issued an API key, and production orders have come in through all three ways (as of 29 September 2026).
The sequence for a first Canadian order
The order of operations, with the Canadian import question where it belongs rather than where the order form puts it.
- Sign up. Eight fields, no card, no tax number. Set your main delivery destination country to Canada.
- Get through review. About 10 minutes if your sign-up email matches your website, otherwise normally within 12 hours. Real prices open at this point.
- Read the CBSA material while you wait. Sections 3 and 4 of the guide, and the CARM page line about the business number and import-export (RM) account. If a broker is going to clear your goods, have that conversation before the first order.
- Build the basket. Check each delivery group's minimum order amount. Listings carry material and country-of-origin detail for some products, in Japanese. Read the shipping reference figure in the cart for scale.
- Register a card and place the order. No tax number is required for a Canadian address, though a Business Number is accepted if you hold one. You are charged when stock is confirmed, and only for what ships.
Then the import side begins, and it is yours: clearance, duty and taxes at the border, and compliance for anything you put on a shelf. The optional field on the order form does not change that.
For how this changes destination by destination, start from what ships to your country.
FAQ
Do I need a business number to order Japanese wholesale from Canada?
Two questions sit inside that one. On the orosy order form, no: for a delivery address in Canada the tax number field is optional, and the form accepts your business number (BN) if you hold one. Separately, the Canada Border Services Agency states on its CARM page that you need a business number and an import-export program (RM) account before you import or export goods. Sales are on DAP terms and the buyer is the importer, so that requirement is addressed to you rather than to orosy. Whether it applies to your business is a question for that CBSA guidance or your customs broker, not for a sourcing guide.
What can a Canadian shop order from Japan today?
Three groups ship to Canada: stationery, adult apparel, and kitchen and dining goods. Measured on 12 October 2026, that was 98,295 products available for delivery to Canada, so over 90,000. Liquids and sprays such as detergents, alcohol and oils do not ship, nor do children's and baby clothing, nor products whose export classification is not yet settled. The catalog for delivery inside Japan is larger, about 200,000 products.
Who pays Canadian duties and GST on a Japanese wholesale order?
You do. Sales are on DAP terms and the buyer is the importer of record. Customs clearance in your country, import duties, and taxes at import are your responsibility. They are not part of the cost billed by orosy. This article publishes no rates. The CBSA guide has a section called Select the duties and taxes that apply, and that guidance plus your own customs broker are the authorities on what a product line owes.
Is the range for Canada the same as for the United States?
No. For a Canadian delivery address, stationery, adult apparel and kitchen and dining goods all ship, which measured 98,295 products on 12 October 2026. For a United States delivery address only stationery ships, which measured 56,607 products on the same date. A buyer in Toronto and a buyer in Seattle do not see the same range, so a range described in a guide written for American shops is not the range you get.
How long does approval take for a Canadian business?
Most accounts are approved within about 10 minutes if the sign-up email domain matches the business website or the email is listed on it; otherwise verification is normally completed within 12 hours. The review is based on your business website, which is why the URL field is required. While it is pending you can search and place test orders in test mode, and real products with wholesale prices open once you are approved.
Sources
- CARM: Assess and pay duties and taxes on imported commercial goods, Canada Border Services Agency: https://www.canada.ca/en/border-services-agency/services/carm.html
- Guide to importing commercial goods into Canada, Canada Border Services Agency: https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/import/guide-eng.html