Round 2 of Export Market Development Grants:
- opened on 6 July 2022
- closed on 17 August 2022.
There were 2,758 applications submitted.
Figures below reflect the breakdown of applications at the time Round 2 closed.
Applications by tier breakdown
- 809 in Tier 1 (29.3%)
- 852 in Tier 2 (30.9%)
- 1,055 in Tier 3 (38.3%)
- 42 in Representative body (1.5%)
Average planned expenditure per year, by tier
- $60,232 in Tier 1
- $99,567 in Tier 2
- $201,450 in Tier 3
- $155,744 in Representative body
Applicants by type
- 1,728 (62.7%) of total applications were lodged by grant agents and 1,030 (37.3%) were self-lodged by applicants.
- 815 (41.0%) self-lodged applications were submitted by new applicants to EMDG.
- 25 applications were submitted by businesses indicating that they are Indigenous owned or controlled.
- Agent or self-lodged applications by businesses indicating that they are Indigenous owned or controlled:
- 22 of these were new applicants to EMDG
- 20 were self-lodged.
Applications by product category
Product category
| Applicants (#)
| Applicants (%)
|
Events
| 5
| 0.2%
|
Goods
| 1,224
| 44.4%
|
Intellectual property or knowhow
| 211
| 7.7%
|
Other services
| 516
| 18.7%
|
Software
| 303
| 11.0%
|
Tourism services
| 134
| 4.9%
|
More than one product category
| 365
| 13.2%
|
Total
| 2,758
| 100%
|
Turnover and breakdown of applications
- Average annual turnover of applicants is $1.9m.
- Applications by state and territory are:
- 36 in the Australian Capital Territory (1.3%)
- 961 in New South Wales (34.8%)
- 8 in the Northern Territory (0.3%)
- 472 in Queensland (17.1%)
- 196 in South Australia (7.1%)
- 31 in Tasmania (1.1%)
- 820 in Victoria (29.7%)
- 234 in Western Australia (8.5%).
- 191 agents submitted applications, 25 of which were agents new to EMDG:
- 51 agents submitted one application (26.7%)
- 92 agents submitted between 2 to 9 applications (48.2%)
- 26 agents submitted between 10 to 19 applications (13.6%)
- 16 agents submitted 20 to 49 applications (8.4%)
- 6 agents submitted 50 or more applications (3.1%).
Top 10 markets
The figures for target markets indicated by EMDG Round 2 grantees are below. They include executed grant agreements only.
The percentages don’t add to 100%. This is because a grantee can target multiple markets.
Market Rank
| Market
| Applicants planning to export to market
| % of applicants planning to export to market
|
1
| United States of America
| 1,050
| 41.8%
|
2
| United Kingdom
| 731
| 29.1%
|
3
| Canada
| 371
| 14.8%
|
4
| Singapore
| 334
| 13.3%
|
5
| Germany
| 262
| 10.4%
|
6
| France
| 238
| 9.5%
|
7
| China
| 229
| 9.1%
|
8
| Japan
| 192
| 7.6%
|
9
| Malaysia
| 155
| 6.2%
|
10
| India
| 144
| 5.7%
|
Grant agreements
Out of the 2,758 submitted applications, 2,543 grant agreements were issued. This represents a 92% success rate. Figures are as at 13 September 2023.
The breakdown of agreements by tier is shown below:
Tier category
| Grant agreements
| % of grant agreements
|
Tier 1
| 759
| 30%
|
Tier 2
| 777
| 31%
|
Tier 3
| 977
| 38%
|
Representative bodies
| 30
| 1%
|
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