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
* Effective from 30 April 2021 until 30 June 2026, the funding scope of SME Export Marketing Fund (EMF) is expanded to cover large-scale exhibitions staged by organisers with good track record targeting the local market, as well as online exhibitions organised by Hong Kong Trade Development Council and reputable exhibition organisers with good track record; and the eligibility criteria is relaxed to cover non-SMEs. * Effective from 30 April 2021 until 30 June 2026, the funding scope of SME Export Marketing Fund (EMF) is expanded to cover large-scale exhibitions staged by organisers with good track record targeting the local market, as well as online exhibitions organised by Hong Kong Trade Development Council and reputable exhibition organisers with good track record; and the eligibility criteria is relaxed to cover non-SMEs.
The EMF has been consolidated into the Dedicated Fund on Branding, Upgrading and Domestic Sales (BUD Fund) with effect from 1 July 2026. Only those EMF applications involving eligible promotion activities completed on or before 30 June 2026 would be processed. For details, please visit the EMF website.The EMF has been consolidated into the Dedicated Fund on Branding, Upgrading and Domestic Sales (BUD Fund) with effect from 1 July 2026. Only those EMF applications involving eligible promotion activities completed on or before 30 June 2026 would be processed. For details, please visit the EMF website.
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.