r/CustomsBroker

The CIT has certified a class for purposes of refunding IEEPA tariffs on finally liquidated entries covering importers that have not yet filed a CIT action.

Allllright well, here I am 39F mother of two happily married stay at home mom. Grew up in customs my whole life. Mother is a Mexican and American broker. And my dad had a giant logistics company.

Long story short. I took my exam while in college and passed! I was 19. Graduated at 23 and went to work at my parents firm and started a small brokerage in house. I learned basic things but I was so young. I recall doing entries, having 1 employee and getting the company CTPAT certified. But I was so privileged, I got all my clients straight from my parents forwarding company.

Things however, quickly got dicey, I wasn’t allowed to do much, learn much, or ask questions. My father was really controlling. I felt trapped. My parents divorced. And I disolved my brokerage business, retained my license and moved away and started a retail company.

Years later, I married had kids and wanted to return to the family business but my father didn’t let me. He told me to go out on my own ( a whole other topic of discussion here ). He then sold his company.

My mom, being the badass that she is, encourages me to start my own small brokerage and see how much I can scale.

I’ve since been taking the CE courses through CBP, got a CCS certification and I’ve been talking to brokers on how to get back into the game.

I’m so lost! I barely remember how to do entries, I also no longer have the privilege of being handed clients. My thoughts are to get an entry level job as a customs entry specialist and go from there? I see some remote job postings that could work well for me But another broker told me that’s a waste of my time and should dive straight into getting a client and starting there.

I have overall knowledge of how this entire world works. It’s like the second language you grow up with at home but I have no real WORKING knowledge and in order for me to feel confident I feel like I need to get some experience.

Where do I go from here?

I am tabbing up all my credits that I have accumulated so far, and curious how everyone is keeping up with the record keeping requirements. I personally have kept a spreadsheet with all the header information (name of event, date, name of host or provider, credits accrued, location, any documentation received). Most of the credits I have received have been through the CBP webinars. I wonder how everyone is keeping up with the documentation for the webinars. I try to keep emails from the registration , but I do take pictures of the slides, especially the one with the credit code. How is everyone doing this?

Hi All,

Based in USA and in my early 40's, currently working a job in sales of manufactured goods, and considering a change in my career, and being a customs broker seems pretty interesting, as I already need to deal with HTS codes, etc. at my current work.

There's so much information out there that I don't even know where to start, or how to separate good info from bad info. Any advice for someone who's looking for a new position? I'm not currently in logistics, etc. yet but really considering it.

Hello. My cargo got intensive exam at savannah. Has anyone know the exam process at savannah and what is the email address of CBP over there?