Round 3 of Export Market Development Grants:
- opened on 15 March 2023
- closed on 14 April 2023.
There were 2,184 applications submitted.
Figures on this page reflect the breakdown of applications at the time Round 3 closed.
Round 3 application statistics
- Applications by tier breakdown:
- 666 in Tier 1 (30.5%)
- 641 in Tier 2 (29.3%)
- 847 in Tier 3 (38.8%)
- 30 in Representative body (1.4%).
- Average planned expenditure per year, by tier:
- $61,741 in Tier 1
- $93,095 in Tier 2
- $149,978 in Tier 3
- $117,763 in Representative body.
Applicants by type
- 1,372 (63%) of total applications were lodged by grant agents and 812 (37%) were self-lodged by applicants.
- 712 (33%) self-lodged applications were submitted by new applicants to EMDG.
- 19 applications were submitted by businesses indicating they are Indigenous owned or controlled.
- Agent or self-lodged applications by businesses indicating they are Indigenous owned or controlled:
- 15 of these were new applicants to EMDG
- 13 were self-lodged.
Applications by product category
Product category
| Applicants (#)
| Applicants (%)
|
Events
| 8
| 0.37%
|
Goods
| 906
| 41.48%
|
Intellectual property or knowhow
| 172
| 7.88%
|
More than one product category
| 293
| 13.42%
|
Other services
| 497
| 22.76%
|
Software
| 235
| 10.76%
|
Tourism services
| 73
| 3.34%
|
Total
| 2,184
| 100%
|
Turnover and breakdown of applications
- Average annual turnover of applicants is $1.4m.
- Applications by state and territory are:
- 18 in the Australian Capital Territory (0.8%)
- 747 in New South Wales (34.2%)
- 7 in the Northern Territory (0.3%)
- 343 in Queensland (15.7%)
- 143 in South Australia (6.6%)
- 15 in Tasmania (0.7%)
- 743 in Victoria (34.0%)
- 168 in Western Australia (7.7%).
- 147 agents submitted applications, 10 of which were agents new to EMDG:
- 38 agents submitted one application (25.9%)
- 67 agents submitted between 2 to 9 applications (45.6%)
- 17 agents submitted between 10 to 19 applications (11.6%)
- 10 agents submitted 20 to 49 applications (6.8%)
- 3 agents submitted 50 or more applications (2.0%)
- 2 agents submitted 100 or more applications (1.4%).
Top 10 markets
The figures for target markets indicated by EMDG Round 3 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
| Grantees planning to export to market
| % of grantees planning to export to market
|
1
| United States of America
| 1,355
| 66.9%
|
2
| United Kingdom
| 960
| 47.4%
|
3
| Canada
| 526
| 26.0%
|
4
| Singapore
| 439
| 21.7%
|
5
| Germany
| 344
| 17.0%
|
6
| France
| 340
| 16.8%
|
7
| China
| 327
| 16.1%
|
8
| Japan
| 296
| 14.6%
|
9
| India
| 262
| 12.9%
|
10
| United Arab Emirates
| 206
| 10.2%
|
Grant agreements
As of 13 September 2023, we have assessed all 2,184 applications and issued 2,044 grant agreements. This represents a success rate of almost 94%. Figures are correct as at 13 September 2023.
The breakdown of agreements by tier is shown below:
Tier category
| Grant agreements
| % of grant agreements
|
Tier 1
| 635
| 31%
|
Tier 2
| 640
| 31%
|
Tier 3
| 746
| 37%
|
Representative bodies
| 23
| 1%
|
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