Incentives

The objective of the fund is to boost the struggling steel industry with an interest subsidy that offers discounts to qualifying clients.

Target Sectors include:

• Foundry industries;
• Fabrication sectors – focused on pressure vessels, pipes and pipe fittings sub-sectors; structural steel and any fabrication work in support of steel intensive designated sectors/products;
• Parts and component manufacturers of steel-intensive products;
• Valve and pump manufacturers;
• Machining plants;
• Capital equipment industries particularly steel intensive rail and rolling stock components; and
• Any other steel-intensive business.

IDC STEEL BROCHURE_A4_DIGITAL.pdf

Watch the YouTube Video of the Webinar

The South African Department of Trade, Industry & Competition (dtic)

Export Marketing & Investment Incentives Assistance (EMIA) offers qualifying companies the opportunity to participate in Group Participation funded National Pavilions and Inward Buying, Outward Selling and Investment Missions. MEMSA has historically provided insight and guidance on behalf members and the industry to the dtic on the challenges and opportunities in export markets.

Individual Participation can be applied for to access targeted markets for Primary Market Research, Foreign Direct Investment and Individual Exhibition and Product Registration in Foreign Markets.

MEMSA host regular incentives awareness webinars 

EMIA Export Awareness Webinar July 2022

Given the short time to submission, the dtic has made an allowance as follows:

All applicants should submit the completed Form, Tax Clearance and Export Permit Certificate by Friday

The balance of documents, including the detailed information required to back up the Export Readiness Assessment, may follow at a later date in the course of next week.

the dtic will be leading a multi-sectoral delegation to the 3rd edition of the Intra-Africa Trade Fair (IATF) scheduled to take place from 9 - 15 November 2023 in Cairo, Egypt. If you take the African market seriously, this week-long Exhibition including a Trade and Investment Conference could be of great value.

You are hereby invited to submit your application for participation in the IATF.

Kindly download and complete the relevant form linked below (Manufacturer or Service Provider).

The completed form together with the required supporting documents should be emailed to the dtic by the 22nd  of September 2023. 

The Manufacturing Support Programme (MSP) is an incentive designed to grow and develop the manufacturing sector through investment in new or expansion manufacturing projects that will, create and sustain employment, encourage transformation and promote localisation.

The MSP is available to South African registered entities engaged in manufacturing

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC 3).

THE OBJECTIVE OF THE MANUFACTURING SUPPORT PROGRAMME (MSP):

• Promote operational efficiency and competitiveness in new or expansion manufacturing projects.
• Encourage transformation through supporting enterprises owned by Black persons, Women, Youth and People with Disabilities.
• Create and sustain employment.
• Promote localisation through the use of locally produced inputs/raw materials and machinery directly related to production.

THE OBJECTIVES WILL BE SUPPORTED THROUGH THE FOLLOWING COMPONENTS OF THE PROGRAMME:

• Competitiveness Improvements
• Green Technology and Resource Efficiency Improvements
• Production Capacity Expansion or New Projects

BENEFITS

CAPITAL EXPENDITURE AND RAW MATERIALS

• The MSP offers a reimbursable grant of up to twenty percent (20%) for projects. The maximum grant offering is R10 million over a two-year investment period with the last claim to be submitted within six (6) months after the final approved milestone.
• the dtic will provide a thirty percent (30%) reimbursable grant for projects that are fifty one percent (51%) owned and controlled/managed by Women, and/or Youth(s) and/or Person(s) with Disabilities.

COMPETITIVENESS IMPROVEMENTS COSTS

• The objective of this benefit is to improve the competitiveness of manufacturers through the improvement of processes, products, quality standards and related skills development, registration and validation requirements and licensing, technology transfer, waste management, energy efficiency and improvement through the use of business development services.
• The competitiveness improvements grant related to consultant fees/costs may not exceed R1 million.
• “All applicants must comply to mandatory requirements on paragraph 4 of the MSP guidelines and must adhere to legislative requirements governing the sector”

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

• Be a registered legal entity in South Africa
• Be compliant with the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, 2003
• Be a minimum B-BBEE level 4 Contributor
• Be a registered taxpayer in good standing. 

Complete application and the required supporting documents must be submitted to: MSPapplications@thedtic.gov.za

• Local output and import replacement applications 
• MSP MSP Guidelines April 2024 (003).pdf
  MSP_ApplicationForm.pdf.crdownload.pdf