Export Marketing Fund
Export Marketing Fund(EMF) which is under the Trade and Industry Department has been sponsoring SMEs to explore overseas markets from the past. Last year, the amount of funding was raised from HKD$200,000 to HKD$400,000 for each company. Most people though the fund only sponsored for exhibition, in fact, it had expanded to information technology and advertising such as:
1. Google, Yahoo!, Facebook and other search engines or social platform ads
2. Website design or online store
3. Mobile app
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1. It must be registered in Hong Kong under the Business Registration Ordinance (Chapter 310).
2. It must meet the Government’s definition of SMEs, i.e. if it is engaged in manufacturing business, it must employ fewer than 100 persons in Hong Kong; and if it is engaged in non-manufacturing business, employ fewer than 50 persons in Hong Kong.
3. 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 operations in Hong Kong.
4. If it has previously received EMF grants, the cumulative amount of grants received must not exceed the prevailing cumulative grant ceiling. Applicant enterprises that have similar business registration details (e.g. nature of the business, address, shareholder/directorship) will be treated as connected enterprises. For the purpose of the cumulative grant ceiling, connected enterprises are treated as if they were one enterprise, i.e. the cumulative amount of grants received by the connected enterprises concerned are aggregated and must not exceed the cumulative grant ceiling.
5. It must not be the organizer/co-organizer or a related company of the organizer/co-organizer of the export promotion activity covered by the application.
To facilitate the assessment to ascertain the enterprise has substantive business operations in Hong Kong, the enterprise may be required to submit the following supporting documents:
| Data of the Applicant Enterprise | Examples of Document |
| Business operations | Commercial contracts, invoices, receipts, freight forwarding documents, bank records, records of purchase/sales of goods, office tenancy, water/electricity bills |
| Financial information | Audited account, financial report, monthly bank statements, Profits Tax Returns and taxation assessment issued by the Inland Revenue Department |
| Information of Employees | Mandatory Provident Fund records or approved retirement plan records, employees’ employment contract, salary payment record, staff identity documents |
For more details, please visit : https://www.smefund.tid.gov.hk/