B) Answer the questions on the text

1. What body controls the flow of good into and out of the country? 2. What is the major responsibility of immigration authorities? 3. Which way the flow of goods is controlled? 4. Explain the difference between ‘importation’ and ‘exportation’. 5. What functions of Customs are of primarily importance nowadays (name some of them)? 6. What is the role of IT technologies and why? 7. Do you agree that the most important area of customs work nowadays is fiscal activity? 8. Why do you think it is important for the customs to work in collaboration with police and immigration authorities?

Exercise 3 a) Read a job description for the customs officer provided on the website TARGETjobs and complete the sentences with the words from the box. Translate it.

dealing, writing, making, collecting, checking, identifying, undertaking, fighting

Customs officers are responsible for helping to prevent the importation of illegal and/or dangerous goods including firearms, drugs, alcohol, tobacco and endangered animals into the UK.

Customs officers are employed by HM* Revenue & Customs and work in UK ports and airports. Typical responsibilities of the job include:

- … people to question on the basis of prior offences/likely risk etc

- searching baggage and individuals for smuggled items

- ….. arrests of people suspected of smuggling

- seizing smuggled goods

- ….. documentation relating to imported goods

- ….. physical examinations of freight

- detecting and prosecuting drug smugglers

- ….. and supplying trade statistics

- ….. reports

- ….. the increasing problem of alcohol and tobacco smuggling

- helping to combat the worldwide illegal trade in endangered species of animals and birds

-..... with revenue due on imported goods

Customs officers can work in noisy, dirty or dangerous conditions, and they enforce legislation.

Qualifications and training required: the minimum academic requirement for entry into the profession is two GCSEs** or the equivalent. Graduates with an honours degree in any subject (2.2 or higher) can apply through the fast-track graduate scheme, details of which are available from the HM Revenue & Customs website.

Experience of and/or a qualification in legal studies or European/non-European languages may be beneficial. A relevant postgraduate qualification and/or work experience may be required for some positions.

Key skills for customs officers: all candidates should be UK nationals and free from certain criminal convictions. Customs officers need to be calm, assertive and resilient, and must possess excellent communication, teamworking and interpersonal skills.

*HM – Her Majesty

**GCSE – General Certificate of Secondary Education

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