Customs Agent

Customs agents are responsible for investigation money laundering, customs fraud, narcotics smuggling, child pornography, and enforcement of the Arms Export Control Act. Foreign and domestic investigations are comprised of physical and electronic surveillances, use and development of informers, and the assessment of records from couriers, importers and exporters, manufacturers, and banks. They obtain and carry out search warrants, hold interviews, and work with various agencies on joint task forces.

Custom inspectors enforce importing and exporting laws by examining luggage, shipments, clothing worn or carried, and transportation including trains, vehicles, vessels, and airplanes leaving or entering the United States. Commercial and noncommercial cargoes leaving and entering the United States are weighed, measured, examined, sampled, counted, and gauged. Smuggled and prohibited items are confiscated by inspectors. Customs inspectors also stop contraband and detain, look for, and arrest violators of U.S. law.