EMDG Round 1 key statistics
Round 1 of Export Markets Development Grants opened on 16 August 2021 and closed on 30 November 2021.
Statistics for Round 1 are:
- 5,384 applications were submitted
- Applications by state/territory are:
- 66 in the ACT (1.2%)
- 2,154 in NSW (40%)
- 8 in the NT (0.1%)
- 875 in Qld (16.3%)
- 310 in SA (5.8%)
- 41 in Tas (0.8%)
- 1,505 in Vic (28.0%)
- 425 in WA (7.8%).
Applications by product category
Product category
|
Applicants (#)
|
Applicants (%)
|
Events
|
5
|
0.1%
|
Goods
|
2,536
|
47.1%
|
Intellectual Property or knowhow
|
502
|
9.3%
|
Other services
|
1,041
|
19.3%
|
Software
|
480
|
8.9%
|
Tourism services
|
120
|
2.2%
|
More than one product category
|
700
|
13.0%
|
Total
|
5,384
|
100%
|
Breakdown by applicant type:
- 4,020 (74.7%) applications were lodged by agents
- 1,364 (25.3%) were self-lodged by applicants
Approved applications:
- 5,253 applications were approved as eligible for a grant agreement:
- 890 for Tier 1 (16%)
- 2,040 for Tier 2 (39%)
- 2,243 for Tier 3 (43%)
- 80 for representative bodies (2%)
New and returning applicants:
- 2,662 were new to EMDG at the time of applying in Round 1
- 2,722 were returning applicants who previously received a grant under the EMDG Reimbursement Scheme
- 247 agents submitted applications, 36 were agents new to EMDG. For these agents:
- 50 submitted 1 application (20%)
- 103 submitted between 2 to 9 applications (42%)
- 43 submitted between 10 to 19 applications (17%)
- 29 submitted 20 to 49 applications (12%)
- 15 submitted 50 to 99 applications (6%)
- 7 submitted 100 or more applications (3%).
Grant agreements and payments:
- 5,085 grant agreements have been executed as at 31 October 2022:
- 862 Tier 1 (17%)
- 1,958 Tier 2 (38%)
- 2,185 Tier 3 (43%)
- 80 representative body (2%).
- 912 payments were made to Tier 1 and representative bodies by 30 September 2022
- 842 of 862* Tier 1
- 70 of 80* Representative bodies
*The remaining 3% will be paid in early 2022-23, after they have submitted milestone reports.
- The average annual turnover of approved applicants was $1.96m
Milestone reports:
- Milestone reports are required to be submitted by 30 August 2022.
- As at 31 October 2022, 4,939 milestone reports have been lodged from Round 1 grantees for expenditure incurred in the 2021-22 financial year.
- We have received an average of 40.5 milestone reports daily since the EMDG portal opened on 1 July. This included:
- 810 Tier 1 (16.4%)
- 1,904 Tier 2 (38.6%)
- 2,148 Tier 3 (43.5%)
- 77 representative bodies (1.6%).
- As at 31 October 2022 the state/territory breakdown of the milestone reports received to date are:
- 64 in ACT (1.3%)
- 1,980 in NSW (40.1%)
- 7 in NT (0.1%)
- 787 in Qld (15.9%)
- 291 in SA (5.9%)
- 1,382 in Vic (28.0%)
- 394 in WA (8.0%).
The top 10 markets for EMDG Round 1 applicants
Market Rank
|
Market
|
Applicants planning to export to market
|
% of applicants planning to export to market
|
1
|
United States of America
|
2,510
|
17.4%
|
2
|
Canada
|
1,019
|
7.1%
|
3
|
China
|
765
|
5.3%
|
4
|
Singapore
|
706
|
4.9%
|
5
|
Germany
|
634
|
4.4%
|
6
|
World
|
607
|
4.2%
|
7
|
Japan
|
479
|
3.3%
|
8
|
Hong Kong (SAR of China)
|
393
|
2.7%
|
9
|
India
|
371
|
2.6%
|
10
|
United Arab Emirates
|
330
|
2.3%
|
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