Occupation Atlascustoms and excise officer
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a3ef0728-7540-4676-ad18-cf0a7913b3ce
customs and excise officer
Customs and excise officers approve or deny the passage of goods through customs barriers for international business and ensure compliance with consignment legislation. They facilitate communication between import and export trading institutions and government officials, and are responsible for taxation calculation and ensuring payment.
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Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
CERConventional · Enterprising · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional5.27
- E Enterprising4.29
- R Realistic3.39
- I Investigative2.64
- S Social2.60
- A Artistic1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Customs and Border Protection Officers (33-3051.04): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (12)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- calculate tax
- control trade commercial documentation
- coordinate import transportation activities
- handle surveillance equipment
- illegal substances
- import export regulations of dangerous chemicals
- international business
- international import export regulations
- international taxation of transfer prices
- manage import export licenses
- tax legislation
- undertake inspections
Optional (18)
- check official documents
- comply with legal regulations
- conduct research interview
- give instructions to staff
- maintain operational communications
- patrol areas
- prepare documentation for international shipping
- present evidence
- process payments
- provide advice to clients in terms of export restrictions
- provide advice to clients in terms of import restrictions
- regulations for international transportation
- respond to enquiries
- select items for auction
- train animals for professional purposes
- transport dangerous goods
- use different communication channels
- write work-related reports
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
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