Funding for Tasmanian businesses to create trade opportunities

The Accelerating Trade Grant Program provides businesses with funding on a co-contribution basis to support activities that will lead to new trade opportunities.

Overview

The Accelerating Trade Grant Program provides Tasmanian businesses with funding to help them undertake activities which will lead to new trade opportunities.

Eligible activities may include:

• market research and business-matching services
• promotional activities and materials
• in-bound buyer visits to Tasmania
• travel to an off-island market
• on-ground expenditure.

Check if you can apply

To be eligible, you must:

• have an Australian business number (ABN) and be registered for goods and services tax (GST)
• be producing, transforming or value-adding to products and/or services in Tasmania and be dispatching them from Tasmania
• demonstrate the necessary capabilities, resources and capacity to undertake the trade development activity
• have an annual sales turnover greater than $150,000 in at least one of the 2 last financial years, or in the current financial year-to-date, and annual sales that have never exceeded $20 million
• be running a financially viable business.