Applications have now closed for Round 4 of EMDG.
This is a demand-driven grant opportunity. We will assess and award grants to eligible applicants in order of application receipt.
Even if you lodged your application prior to the closure of the online portal, you may not be successful. This is because the grant funding may have been already fully allocated to other grant recipients.
View a status update on applications and grant funding allocations for EMDG Round 4 on the Manage your Round 4 grant page.
To apply:
For more information about applying as a representative body:
If you are applying to undertake marketing and promotional activities in foreign markets, you must have a high-quality plan to market. You do this by answering a series of questions in the online application form. You cannot upload your plan to market as a separate document.
The plan to market must be unique and specific to your organisation. It should explain:
To be considered high-quality, all mandatory questions must be answered with sufficient detail but within a character limit. The maximum is 3,000 characters (about 500 words) per answer.
We encourage applicants to:
If you are providing export readiness or marketing training courses or programs to your members, you must prepare an export training plan. Complete the export training plan in the Mandatory templates and reading section below. Upload this with your application.
Your export training plan should include:
To be considered high-quality, all mandatory questions must be completed with sufficient detail but within a character limit. The maximum is 3,000 characters (about 500 words).
We encourage applicants to review the export training plan sample. This is in the Sample documents section below.
For details of the type and number of documents to be uploaded as attachments to your application, refer to EMDG Round 4: attachments to online application form – representative bodies (DOCX 668KB).
Please note all documents must be:
If you have difficulty accessing these documents with accessibility tools, please contact emdg.help@austrade.gov.au.
As per the EMDG guidelines, you must comply with all your obligations under taxation laws during:
Refer to section 13 of the Export Market Development Grants Rules 2021 for further detail.
You must provide the following evidence of your compliance with taxation laws during the 2022-23 and 2023-24 financial years:
If you’re currently on an ATO payment plan, you must mention this in the application form as further evidence of compliance with taxation laws.
If your business has not yet lodged its tax return for the 2023-24 financial year, you must provide evidence of:
Please note that if you are successful to be offered a grant agreement:
It is your obligation to comply with Australian Taxation Laws. We recommend you seek:
We do not provide advice on your particular taxation circumstances.
If you have difficulty accessing these documents with accessibility tools, please contact emdg.help@austrade.gov.au.