Electronic correction of Reward declarations enables timely transmission of amended shipping bills for MEIS benefit processing.

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....MEIS benefit processing requires a shipping bill's Reward declaration, inadvertently entered as 'N', to be corrected to 'Y' in the EDI system after Customs has made the corresponding manual correction. The amended shipping bills must then be electronically transmitted to DGFT under the prescribed public-notice procedure so that the MEIS claim can be implemented. Administrative technology must facilitate, rather than obstruct, a rectifiable procedural correction; the specified Customs and DGFT actions are to be completed within four weeks of communication.....