Customs officer
Code 3351.1
Customs officers combat the importation of illegal goods, firearms, drugs or other dangerous or illegal items while checking the legality of items brought across national borders. They are government officials who control the documents to ensure entry criteria and custom laws are complied with and control if the custom taxes are paid correctly.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- customs law
- licences regulation
Skills and competences
- advise on licencing procedures
- advise on customs regulations
- check official documents
- manage import export licenses
- prevent smuggling
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences