Agri-Business Expansion Initiative

• The Agricultural Trade and Market Access Cooperation (ATMAC) program has been expanded and modified to enable the government to develop strategic partnerships with industry to support trade expansion and diversification.
• Potential grants will be assessed by an industry-government panel, with those sectors most affected by trade disruptions targeted for assistance.
• Eligible activities for ATMAC funding include investments that support trade expansion, international marketing and promotion plans, research and development, training and education, information exchange, feasibility studies, competitor analyses or sector or market analyses, export strategy development, targeted relationship development, capital works that support improved market diversification, and influencing the evolution or adoption of international standards and protocols.
• Industry associations including peak bodies and Rural Research and Development Corporations are eligible to apply for ATMAC funding. Proposals are required to demonstrate broad support across the relevant industry stakeholders and include a co-contribution, financial and/or in-kind. The nature of the arrangements will vary depending on the sector, export markets and diversification activities being targeted.
• For detail on ATMAC available funding for each year, please refer to the ATMAC website.

Further information please contact:
atmac@agriculture.gov.au

• ABEI has enabled the deployment of three short-term Agriculture Counsellors to rapidly build targeted relationships and ensure a sharp focus on actions necessary to grow agricultural exports. Our new Counsellors deployed to the United States, Saudi Arabia and the Republic of Korea complement our existing network of 22 Overseas Agriculture Counsellors.
• These short-term Agriculture Counsellors will enable technical market access wins by managing government and industry relationships, ensuring targeted technical inputs, reporting market intelligence, and navigating sensitivities around market access requests. The Counsellors will also complement the technical analysis and negotiations undertaken by Canberra-based scientists and policy negotiators.
• The new short-term Agriculture Counsellors were deployed through collaboration with industry who helped to identify market access priorities with the greatest commercial prospects.
• For more information on our network of Overseas Agriculture Counsellors visit Our Agriculture Counsellors.

• ABEI is enabling acceleration of the negotiation of technical agreements by boosting our scientific and technical capacity.
• This will help to progress market access priorities, reducing the time required to negotiate new and improved access for Australian producers.
  • The negotiation of technical access conditions to address food safety, animal health and biosecurity protocols, is a pre-requisite for international trade. This will ensure that Australian agricultural producers have favourable access to overseas markets.
• We are mobilising Australia’s scientific expertise to undertake technical cooperation activities with our trading partners. These activities will help to overcome technical constraints that currently impede mutually beneficial two-way trade.
  • This includes technical partnerships that share Australia’s expertise, such as hosting and funding technical forums and engaging specialist consultants, which help build relationships between Australia and our trading partners and improves outcomes for both countries.

• ABEI is boosting the department’s capacity to give exporters the information they need to grow their exports.
• Access to timely in-market intelligence is essential to support export growth, particularly in new markets where Australian businesses do not have existing relationships.
• Automated collection, processing and analysis of market information is enabling us to create more informative intelligence products in shorter timeframes. The following infographics detail agriculture, fisheries and forestry trade highlights from the first quarter of 2021.

October 2021 agricultural, fisheries and forestry trade highlights

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We are also collaborating with Austrade to disseminate market intelligence on the Austrade Insights platform. Recent articles include:

• Short and medium-term opportunities for vegetable exports to Taiwan
• Hatching opportunities for Australian egg and hatchling exporters to Korea
• Korea shows strong appetite for premium Australian produce
• New opportunities for edible tallow exports to Mexico
• Cracking the shell: Australian western rock lobsters ready to roll into Thailand