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Export Market Development Grants (EMDG)

The EMDG scheme is the Australian Government's principal financial assistance program for aspiring and current exporters.  Under the scheme you may claim for expenditure on specific export promotion activities undertaken during the grant year.  For your first grant you may claim expenses incurred over the last two financial years.

You may be entitled to a grant of up to 50% of your eligible export promotion expenditure over the $10,000 threshold. A minimum grant of $5,000 and a maximum of $200,000 applies in relation to the amount that can be claimed annually under the scheme.

If you are an Australian individual, partnership, company, association, co-operative, statutory corporation or trust carrying on business in Australia you may apply for EMDG provided you meet these basic criteria and other conditions:

  • Had annual income of not more than $50 million during the grant year.
  • Spent at least $10,000 on eligible export promotion activities during the grant year.   Please note that first time applicants may combine two consecutive financial years’ expenses in the first EMDG claim to meet this threshold.

Services MPR White Hill provide

MPR White Hill is able to provide your business with the following services in relation the EMDG scheme:

  • Advice on accessing the Scheme in relation to the formation and establishment of a company’s overall and ongoing export marekting program
  • Advice on introducing systems to record expenditure as it is incurred so that claims are maximised
  • Review of operations to ensure claimable expenditure is maximised
  • Assess your eligibility
  • Liaise with senior Austrade staff if there are any areas of doubt regarding eligibility
  • Provide advice on the claim process and what needs to be done
  • Outline what documentary evidence needs to be retained to substantiate the claim
  • Prepare the necessary documentation in order to submit the claim through our dedicated online EMDG software
  • Act as a point of contact and provide assistance through the Austrade audit process
  • Assist with clarifying and finalising with AusTrade subsequent to an audit
  • Assistance with appeals against unsatisfactory determinations issued by AusTrade
  • Provide ongoing advice as and when required.