Package4Growth is a facility aiming to position Dutch companies on the fast growing markets of India and China. The facility is directed towards companies interested in investing and/or exporting to China and India.

Package4Growth has two components: (i) an investment component 'Temporary grant scheme emerging markets' (China and India) and (ii) an export component 'Grant scheme export financing China and India 2010'.

Investments and exports can take place in the following sectors:
India: agro industry, biotechnology, construction, ICT, infrastructure and logistics and the medical sector.

China: sustainability within the energy, industry, technology, infrastructure, agriculture and water sectors.

(i) INVESTMENT COMPONENT

The project
The activities to which the grant applies may be part of a larger project. This larger project is defined as the investment project whilst the part for which a grant will be applied for is defined as the project part.

Conditions for the investment project:

• The applicant is a company established in the Netherlands;
• The project location is in India or China;
• The investment will be done in one of the above mentioned sectors;
• The applicant cannot be active in primary agriculture and fishery;
• The investment project fits within the applicant’s corporate strategy;
• The investment project is commercially feasible;
• The investment project should not lead to market distortion in de project region nor in the Netherlands.

Conditions for the project part

• The project part concerns activities that are new to the company in the project country;
• The project part should not transfer old Technologies to the project country;
• The project part should be technically feasible;
• The parties involved own the capacities to execute the project;
• It is not possible to finance the project part commercially.

Eligible costs

• 50% of the investment with a minimum of 100,000 Euros to a maximum of 200,000 Euros;
• Costs made to support the production process of the investment concerned (except for land and real estate): capital goods and related costs for transport, insurance, import, installation and training.

(ii) EXPORT FINANCING

Conditions for the order:

Eligible costs

• Export transactions are eligible for 40% of the costs, with a maximum of 1500,000 Euros (transaction amount of ~2.0 million Euros).
• The grant applies to the delivery of capital goods, technical subjects, agricultural (raw) material or affirmation of works.

Conditions for the project part

• The applicant is a company established in the Netherlands.
• The project location is in China or India;
• Applicable sectors are mentioned above;
• The order is not commercially feasible without export financing within a period of ten years;
• The Dutch participation in the order amount is at least 60%;
• The relevant local authority declares that this order is of particular importance to the economy of the country.