Suriname is not a party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

Suriname has a copyright regime under the law Copyright Law 1913. However, the exceptions do not follow the fair use or fair dealing model, therefore limiting the lawful use of copyrighted work by others. Arts. 15bis-17 lists the exceptions, which include the use of a work if the author is mentioned in the source from which the quotation is taken; the inclusion, representation, and public communication of limited parts of a work in a photographic, cinematographic or radio report; among others.

Suriname has not signed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty.

Suriname has not signed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

Suriname lacks a comprehensive regime for the protection of trade secrets.

There is no obligation for passive infrastructure sharing in the country to deliver telecom services to end users, and it is not practised in both the mobile and fixed sectors.

Suriname is not a signatory of the 1996 World Trade Organization (WTO) Information Technology Agreement (ITA) nor the 2015 expansion (ITA II).

According to Art. 7.1 of the Tender Regulations for Works in Suriname 1996 (AWS 1996), every tenderer must have a valid contractor's permit and must be registered in the Trade of Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KKF) to be eligible for the award of the work.

It is reported that Suriname lacks overall transparency within its tendering process in diverse public procurement processes.

Suriname is not a party to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), nor does it have observer status.

Suriname does not implement any limits on foreign investment.

Section 323.4 of the Companies Act stipulates that small companies shall be exclusively owned by South Sudanese nationals. According to Section 323.3, a company qualifies as a small-sized private company if its turnover for the preceding accounting period is below a threshold specified by the government, it employs no more than seven individuals, and its share capital does not exceed an amount prescribed by the government. Furthermore, Section 323.5 mandates that financially capable South Sudanese nationals must hold a minimum of 31% of the shares in medium and large private companies. Section 323.6 defines a medium or large private company as one with share capital not less than an amount prescribed by the government. These regulatory restrictions reportedly extend to sectors pertinent to digital trade, although it is not clear whether it applies to the e-commerce sector.

According to Art. 15 of the e-money Regulation, the e-money service provider must strictly apply KYC procedures based on a risk-based approach that determines the different risk categories in the application of customer identification; mobile money accounts have been categorised in the following three levels:
- Level 1: basic level accounts with simplified KYC, which are subject to lower transaction limits and limited documentation requirements for account opening. They have a maximum balance limit equal to USD 1.000, a daily transaction limit equal to USD 250, and a monthly transaction limit equal to USD 2.000;
- Tier 2: Partial KYC accounts that have higher limits and stricter account opening requirements. They have a maximum balance limit equivalent to USD 4.000, a daily transaction limit equivalent to USD 1.000, and a monthly transaction limit equivalent to USD 8.000.
- Level 3: accounts with complete KYC requirements. Accounts with full KYC have higher limits for corporate and government payments. They have a maximum balance limit equivalent to USD 10.000, a daily transaction limit equivalent to USD 2.000, and a monthly transaction limit equivalent to USD 20.000.