SME Export Marketing Fund
Objective: Aims to encourage small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to expand their markets outside Hong Kong by providing financial assistance to SMEs for participation in export promotion activities
Funding Details:
Funded Promotion activities include:
- Trade exhibitions held outside Hong Kong targeting markets outside Hong Kong
- Trade exhibitions held in Hong Kong targeting markets outside Hong Kong
- Trade exhibitions held in Hong Kong targeting the local market
- Online trade exhibitions
- Business missions outside Hong Kong
- Online business missions
- Advertisements on trade publications which mainly target markets outside Hong Kong
- Export promotion activities which are conducted through electronic platforms/media and which mainly target markets outside Hong Kong
- Setting up or enhancement of a corporate website/mobile application owned by the applicant enterprise which mainly targets markets outside Hong Kong
Funding Amount
- Funding will be provided on a 1 (government) :3 (applicant enterprise) matching basis.
- Maximum amount of funding support for each successful application is 25% of the total approved expenditure incurred by the applicant enterprise or HKD100,000, whichever is the less.
- Each enterprise is subject to a cumulative limit of HKD1,000,000. A maximum of 50% of the cumulative limit may be used for applications relating to setting up/enhancing the corporate website/mobile application owned by the enterprise. Sub-ceiling may also apply to certain eligible expenditure items under the same application.
Eligibility:
- Non-listed enterprise registered in Hong Kong under the Business Registration Ordinance (Chapter 310)
- Have substantive business operations in Hong Kong at the time of making the application
- Must not be the organiser/co-organiser/service provider or a related company of the organiser/co-organiser/service provider of the promotion activity and the related services covered by the application
- If it has previously received funding support under EMF, the cumulative amount of funding received must not exceed the prevailing cumulative funding ceiling.