Provide advice on transportation options, types of carriers, or shipping routes.

“Provide advice on transportation options, types of carriers, or shipping routes.” is a core task performed by Customs Brokers. Among the occupation's 23 rated tasks, workers place it 7th by importance (#17 most important). About 85% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Advise others on business or operational matters. in Providing Consultation and Advice to Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T2.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.022% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 22% of that use is work-related
• Most common interaction: directive
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.2 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 100% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Prepare and process import and export documentation according to customs regulations, laws, or procedures. · importance 4.8
• Clear goods through customs and to their destinations for clients. · importance 4.8
• Pay, or arrange for payment of, taxes and duties on shipments. · importance 4.8
• Calculate duty and tariff payments owed on shipments. · importance 4.8
• Request or compile necessary import documentation, such as customs invoices, certificates of origin, and cargo-control documents. · importance 4.7
• Classify goods according to tariff coding system. · importance 4.6
• Sign documents on behalf of clients, using powers of attorney. · importance 4.5
• Stay abreast of changes in import or export laws or regulations by reading current literature, attending meetings or conferences, or conferring with colleagues. · importance 4.5
• Advise customers on import and export restrictions, tariff systems, insurance requirements, quotas, or other customs-related matters. · importance 4.3
• Post bonds for the products being imported or assist clients in obtaining bonds. · importance 4.2
• Quote duty and tax rates on goods to be imported, based on federal tariffs and excise taxes. · importance 4.1
• Arrange for transportation, warehousing, or product distribution of imported or exported products. · importance 4.0
• Monitor or trace the location of goods. · importance 4.0
• Confer with officials in various agencies to facilitate clearance of goods through customs and quarantine. · importance 4.0

See all tasks on the Customs Brokers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Provide advice on transportation options, types of carriers, or shipping routes.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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