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Job Title: Customs Agent
Source: remoteok
Performs a basic level of processing, coordinating, and obtaining customs clearance approval for import/export and transshipments of documents, packages, and merchandise in baggage or air freight.
General Job Description
Under general guidance, you will complete the following tasks:
- Prepare necessary customs forms to enable import, export, and transshipment procedures to take place in a timely, efficient, and effective manner for consignments arriving/departing via aircraft (e.g., master airway bills, cargo manifests, general declarations, invoices, and other related paperwork).
- Prepare forms detailing customs duties, tariffs, and taxes/V.A.T. fees to enable timely recovery of costs.
- Prepare international manifests to ensure responsive and efficient customs clearance.
- Accomplish accurate and timely selection and inspection of assigned packages and the subsequent reporting of stop counts and miss-sorts.
- Ensure the station's full compliance with country customs and tax laws, in line with FedEx policies, procedures, practices, and rules.
- Interface with customs officials and coordinate customs activities with internal operation employees.
- Maintain all customs documentation well-organized and properly filed.
- Perform sorting and baggage support at the airport and station, and retrieve air freight from carriers as required.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Minimum Requirements
Education:
- High School degree or equivalent.
- CRT experience preferred.
- Fluent English skills preferred (Customs-specific English required).
- Ability to lift 50 lbs. and to maneuver any single package weighing up to 150 lbs with appropriate equipment or the weight limit required according to current local labor regulations.
Experience:
- Two to three years in international freight/cargo customs policies, procedures, rules, and laws.
- Knowledge of airport and customs clearance procedures preferred.
- Personable with good written and verbal communication skills.
- General office skills and computer literate.
- Valid driver's license.
About FedEx
FedEx is widely acknowledged as a world-class company. We are honored and proud to be consistently recognized as a great place to work, a technology innovator, and one of the world’s most admired and respected companies.
FedEx is consistently named among the world’s most valuable and admired brands. Some of our recent awards include:
- 2020 Fortune’s World Most Admired Companies (14th)
- 2019 Fortune’s Best Places to Work (15th)
- 2019 Forbes’s One of the “Best Employers for Diversity”
- 2020 FedEx LAC included in the GPTW’s Best Workplaces in Latin America Ranking (24th)
- 2021 FedEx Mexico was included in the GPTW Ranking for 18th consecutive years
- 2020 FedEx Mexico received the CEMEFI Certification for 13th consecutive years endorsing FedEx as a company socially responsible
- 2021 FedEx Chile was re-certified with Giro Limpio, a seal from the Agency of Sustainable Energy that seeks to improve the energy efficiency of the ground transportation sector, by reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
- 2019 FedEx Uruguay selected by GPTW among the 5 best companies to work for.