IFCBAA 117 years today

Trade is the key for development. Trade is good and it fosters growth, creates jobs and is one of the best instruments to fight poverty.

Today the International Forwarders and Customs Brokers Association of Australia celebrates its 117th Anniversary. IFCBAA continues to be the independent voice for industry and members.

In Sydney on 30 August 1904 fourteen businessmen came together to determine ways and means for businesses to be appropriately represented in terms of customs and transport issues. At that meeting they agreed:

“A meeting of licenced custom house agents be held for the purpose of forming a Licensed Customs House Agents Association.”

The Customs Agents and Transport Association of New South Wales was born. The foresight of these strategic thinkers was honed over the next hundred years through the Customs Agents Federation of Australia, the Customs Agents Institute of Australia, the Customs Brokers Council of Australia Inc., the Customs Brokers & Forwarders Council of Australia Inc. (CBFCA), and merging with the Australian Federation of International Forwarders in 2020, to form the International Forwarders and Customs Brokers Association of Australia Limited (IFCBAA).

Happy Birthday, IFCBAA!