Review urges merit-based overhaul for export grant program


David Allen
Reporter

Federal government support for small business exporters needs to be better coordinated across agencies and simpler for applicants, an independent review says.

A review of the popular Export Market Development Grants program that helps SMEs enter export markets has made sweeping recommendations to resuscitate it after its last round of grants faltered.

The review said the $209 million EMDG program should return to a merits-based application structure, ditching the ‘first …

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