PYMEXPORTA: Fostering SME exports
PYMEXPORTA (SMEs Export Program) provides assistance to small and medium-sized enterprises to enhance their ability to promote their products abroad, identify new clients, and close export transactions.
For further information please submit to lromero@promendoza.com
Objectives
To reimburse up to 50% of promotion expenses incurred overseas. This reimbursement system opens up opportunities for current and potential exporters, enhancing their ability to develop new products and access new markets.
Potential beneficiaries
- VAT registered tax payers (Exclusion Criteria: Small business taxpayers, Independent professionals and freelance workers registered as Monotax payers (monotributistas) cannot take part in this program)
- Companies based in Mendoza
- First-time exporters
- Exporting companies with an annual turnover of ≤ USD 3 million and exports for ≤ USD 1 million
Eligible businesses
Companies offering professional services related to:
- Graphic design and printing (logos, images, isotypes, logotypes, brochures, banners, e-cards, catalogs, labels, videos, etc.)
- Webpage design (including design, programming, and photography)
- Accommodation services overseas
- Business trips
- Booking stands, booths and stalls at trade shows, fairs and exhibitions
- Registering trademarks overseas
- Hiring consulting services
- Sending samples
- Certifications that may boost exports
Exclusion criteria
- Companies that have failed to qualify for the exporting program on 2 prior occasions
- Consulting, marketing, trading, and brokerage companies
- Exporting projects claiming refunds for activities exceeding 10% of their prior year turnover (Dispensation: this exclusion criteria does not apply if the project includes an express statement evidencing a capital injection and a considerable increase in business activities)
- Projects that have not submitted all the required information, or projects that do not meet all the necessary formalities
- Projects submitted after the corresponding deadline
- Projects involving isolated actions or actions not framed within an exporting program
- Projects for activities aimed at attracting capital investment
- Projects involving working capital activities
- Projects from companies that belong to economic groups with a turnover higher than the one stated under the inclusion criteria—i.e. companies with sufficient resources to fund these activities on their own.