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Customs Broker
Navigates complex international trade regulations — ensuring goods clear customs legally and efficiently.
Did you know?
Customs brokers sort goods using the Harmonized System, a product code list used by more than 200 countries since 1988.
How subjects help
- Law: Check import rules so goods like food, medicine or electronics are allowed across a border.
- Economics: Work out the taxes owed on imported goods and how trade deals can lower them.
- Geography: Know which ports and border crossings goods pass through and the rules at each one.
- Languages: Read shipping papers and emails from suppliers abroad that are written in other languages.
A famous name
Hulda Regina Graser: Opened her own customs brokerage in Cincinnati in 1886, aged 17 — a rare woman in the job at the time.
Try it yourself: Check the parcel paperwork
- Read every box on the form. Which one is missing?
- Compare the weight on the form with the weight on the scale. What might that mean?
- List the questions you would ask before the parcel can travel.
- Why does every country want parcel forms filled in correctly?
Customs brokers check that goods crossing borders have the right paperwork, so shipments aren't held up and the rules are followed.
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Known for it in
USA, Netherlands, Singapore, UAE, Australia