Confer with officials in various agencies to facilitate clearance of goods through customs and quarantine.

“Confer with officials in various agencies to facilitate clearance of goods through customs and quarantine.” is a core task performed by Customs Brokers. Among the occupation's 23 rated tasks, workers place it 10th by importance (#14 most important). About 100% 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.

• Obtain formal documentation or authorization. in Getting Information

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: T1.

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
• Inform importers and exporters of steps to reduce duties and taxes. · importance 3.8

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
• “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  = {Confer with officials in various agencies to facilitate clearance of goods through customs and quarantine.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-15940}
}