The SME Export Marketing Fund (EMF) 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.
An enterprise applying for funding support under EMF must fulfill the following requirements:
- It must be a non-listed enterprise registered in Hong Kong under the Business Registration Ordinance (Cap. 310).
- It must have substantive business operations in Hong Kong at the time of making the application. An enterprise holding a shell business registration or having its main business operation outside Hong Kong will not be regarded as having substantive business operations4 in Hong Kong.
- If it has previously received funding support under EMF, the cumulative amount of funding received must not exceed the prevailing cumulative funding ceiling. Applicant enterprises which have similar business registration details (e.g. nature of business, address, contact numbers, shareholder/directorship) will be treated as connected.
- It 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.
Trade and Industry Department (TID) reserves at all times the absolute right to determine the eligibility of an enterprise applying for EMF grants.
