NSW Export Assistance Grants Program

This program aims to provide grants to eligible businesses to assist them to recover from the impacts of bushfires, drought and COVID-19 on their export business and export development activities.

Reimbursement of 50% of eligible expenses, up to a maximum of $10,000 per eligible business is available for current or previously exporting businesses enabling access to new or re-entering previous markets.

This funding is provided to reimburse expenses already paid since 1 January 2020.

Eligible applicants include businesses that must:
- Be an exporting business with an annual turnover of up to $100 million.
- Be an exporting business with an annual turnover of greater than $100 million that can demonstrate export turnover has declined by more than 30% in the 2019-20 financial year and have an intention to re-establish their export business in their established markets and/or diversify into new export markets.
- Have an ABN registered in NSW and be registered for GST as at 1 August 2019.
- Be currently exporting or exporting prior to the impacts of COVID-19, bushfires and/or drought.
- Have a minimum of three full-time equivalent employees (three FTE) at the time of application.
- Own the goods/services to be exported or be able to provide documented evidence that they are the agreed export supplier.
- Produce the goods/services to be exported in Australia, or be able to provide documented evidence that the business provides substantial value to NSW.
- Be able to provide tax invoices and receipts for the eligible activities being claimed.

Please refer to the Guidelines for the complete eligibility requirements.

Eligible activities/costs include:
- Marketing materials
- Website internationalisation
- Pivoting to online delivery
- E-commerce development
- Market research
- International tradeshows and trade missions
- Inbound business support
- Costs to support compliance/localisation of products for export
- Costs to protect business in international markets

Please refer to the Guidelines for the complete list of eligible activities/costs.