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

According to Art. 42.11 of The Gambia Public Procurement Act 2022, the international competitive bidding method shall be applied whenever effective competition cannot be obtained unless foreign firms are invited to tender. In this case, the tender shall be published internationally.
Additionally, Schedule 1 of The Gambia Public Procurement Authority Regulations (GPPAR 2019), which remains in effect until the publication of the new Public Procurement Act 2022 Regulation, stipulates that a minimum threshold of GMD 10 million (approx. 143,884 USD) for applying an International Competitive Bidding.

According to Art. 33 of the Public Procurement Act 2022, the Procuring organization may grant a margin of preference for the benefit of tender for goods, services and works by domestic economic operators of tenders for goods, services and works by domestic economic operators or any other preference authorised in the Regulations or any other enactment such as for marginalised groups, particularly the youth, women, and physically challenged.
Additionally, Art. 31 of The Gambia Public Procurement Authority Regulations 2019 (GPPAR 2019), which remains in effect until the publication of the new Public Procurement Act 2022 Regulation, establishes that a margin of preference will be applied during the cost comparison of submitted bids and the evaluation of tenders. Specifically, procuring organisations are required to grant a margin of preference of up to 7.5% to local firms or partnerships between local and foreign firms when awarding contracts for works, consultancy, or non-consultancy services based on international bidding or selection, as well as national competitive bidding or selection in which foreign firms are participating.
For consultancy assignments conducted by foreign firms, procuring organisations must ensure the inclusion of local experts and firms by assigning appropriate weights in the evaluation criteria to encourage partnerships between foreign and local entities. Specifically, a maximum weight of 7.5% will be allocated in the request for proposals for the participation of local firms, with full scores awarded to those demonstrating up to 80% inclusion of local firms. Similarly, for the participation of national experts, a maximum weight of 7.5% will be included, with full scores granted to firms employing over 80% Gambian staff.

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

According to Art. 4 of the Order No. 053/MMI/MDDEPIP of January 25, 2016, setting the entry into force of the controls relating to the assessment of conformity with the standards of imported products, ICT products are part of the goods which are subject to the pre-shipment conformity assessment (HS2012: Chapters 84; 85; 90 and 95). A third-party certificate is accepted to request a certificate of conformity.
According to Art. 7, imports from countries whose agencies in charge of standardisation have a mutual recognition agreement with the Gabonese Standardisation Agency (AGANOR) are technically exempt and benefit from a simplified procedure. It is reported that the homologation process in Gabon does not require local laboratory testing or contact with local representatives.

According to Art. 30 of Ordinance No. 00000015/PR/2018 of 23 February 2018 regulating cybersecurity and the fight against cybercrime in the Gabonese Republic, the service provider or the person providing or importing a cryptology service has to make it available to the competent cryptology authority a description of the technical characteristics of this means of cryptology, as well as the source code of the software used.
However, according to Art. 85, Ordinance No. 00000014/PR/2018 of 23 February 2018 regulating electronic transactions in the Gabonese Republic, the competent authority does not deviate from international technical standards. It is published in the Official Journal or any other legal announcement medium, and the list of international technical standards on the means and services of cryptology is recognised in Gabon.

According to the Instruction No. 8/GR/2019 issued by the Governor of the Bank of Central African States to facilitate the interpretation and implementation of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) Regulation 02/18/CEMAC/UMAC/CM, there is a limit of 1 million XAF (approx. USD 1,700) per month and per person for the remote settlement of transactions, including online payments. According to Arts. 7-8, justification needs to be provided above this limit. The Instruction provides guidance on the provision of Art. 34 of the Regulation, which implements certain limits for using electronic payment instruments outside the CEMAC and applies to the six CEMAC member states, including Gabon.

It is reported that the de minimis threshold, that is the minimum value of goods below which customs do not charge duties, is USD 80, below the 200 USD threshold recommended by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Gabon does not have a legal framework that applies consumer protection to online transactions.

Gabon has not signed the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts.

Gabon has not adopted national legislation based on or influenced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Electronic Commerce.

Gabon has not adopted national legislation based on or influenced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Electronic Signatures.

"Law No. 025/2023 of 9 July 2023, amending Law No. 001/2011 of 25 September 2011 on the Protection of Personal Data", provides a comprehensive data protection regime in Gabon. It includes provisions on data subject rights, the obligations of data controllers and processors, and principles of data processing. Gabon first adopted an overarching data protection law in 2011 through Law No. 001/2011, which granted rights of access, objection to processing, rectification, and erasure, and established the national data protection authority with powers to issue warnings, impose three-month activity bans, and levy fines. Privacy and data protection are also addressed under Law No. 26/2018 on the Regulation of Electronic Communications in Gabon.