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

According to Art. 179 of the Executive Regulations of Law No. 23 for the Year 2007 Concerning Tenders, Auctions and Government Storehouses, if the tender documents allow for granting a margin of preference to the products of local industrial projects, the analysis and evaluation committee must take note of this matter in the final stage of evaluation, provided that this preference is granted in accordance with the percentage and conditions specified in the Investment Law upon submission of proof thereof by the Entity for the purpose of evaluation only. However, the latest version of the Investment Law does not set any specific percentage or conditions.

It is reported that, despite Yemen having established a formal legal framework for public procurement, corruption remains widespread.

Art. 15 of Resolution No. 3283 stipulates that sample goods of no commercial value and personal effects whose FOB value, denominated in VED, does not exceed the amount equivalent to USD 100 shall not require the submission of the Courier Declaration and shall be exempt from the payment of customs duties and other related taxes. This is below the 200 USD threshold recommended by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

The second section of Judgment No. 1.443 issued by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court ordered TikTok to establish a formal representative presence, with its headquarters or an office located within the territory of Venezuela. This presence is intended to enable the supervision and control of the platform’s technological tools in accordance with the constitutional and legal framework of Venezuela governing telecommunications and social media.

Venezuela lacks a comprehesive framework for consumer protection that applies to online transactions.

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

Venezuela has adopted national legislation based on or influenced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Electronic Commerce.

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

Art. 21 of the "Organic Law of the Liberator Simón Bolívar Against the Imperialist Blockade and in Defence of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela" stipulates that electronic media and social networks disseminating advertising, propaganda, or messages that promote the imposition of unilateral coercive measures, or other restrictive or punitive actions affecting Venezuela, shall be subject to fines. In the case of digital platforms, the relevant authorities may additionally revoke or refuse authorisation to operate within the country. The sanctions established in this article shall be applied without prejudice to any applicable criminal penalties.

Art. 22 of the "Constitutional Law Against Hatred, for Peaceful Coexistence and Tolerance" stipulates that, in the context of social networks and electronic media, the failure to remove within six hours any messages that constitute propaganda in favour of war or the advocacy of national, racial, religious, political or other forms of hatred shall result in the blocking of the relevant platforms.
It is reported that, as of August 2025, one year had passed since the blocking of the social network X and the messaging application Signal in Venezuela. Between 7 January and 5 February 2025, at least nine internet service providers restricted access to TikTok, and on 9 January 2025, the state-owned telecommunications provider CANTV imposed a DNS block on Canva, a major web-based design platform, for at least twelve hours. During the same month, Telegram was also subjected to blocking by major providers. In 2025, 61 news websites remain inaccessible. Although several restrictions originated in previous years, new blocks were documented in 2025, including the blocking of the website of the Spanish news agency EFE on 22 March. The government has simultaneously intensified restrictions on censorship circumvention tools such as VPNs, the Tor network and public DNS services, with 58 new cases recorded between 4 July 2024 and 31 January 2025, comprising 26 VPN service websites, the Tor Project website and 30 public DNS servers. In the early hours of 9 January 2025, the country’s principal internet service providers blocked the websites of at least 21 VPN services, in addition to others blocked in preceding days, following orders issued by CONATEL, the governmental body responsible for regulating, supervising and overseeing telecommunications in Venezuela.

The indicator "7.2.4 - Government Internet shut down in practice" of the V-Dem Dataset, which measures whether the government has the technical capacity to actively make internet service cease, thus interrupting domestic access to the internet or whether the government has decided to do so, has a score of 2 in Venezuela for the year 2024. This corresponds to "The government shut down domestic access to the Internet several times this year."

Venezuela’s new laws, resolutions, decrees, government appointments, and other official data are published in the Official Gazette. It is reported that the Gazette does not publish anything similar to notices of proposed rulemaking, so there is no regular official mechanism for inviting comments on proposed changes to technical regulations. The Gazette also does not publish new technical regulations. The full contents of a new technical regulation must be obtained directly from the government agency that created it. The same holds true for new standards themselves, available only by request from either the FONDONORMA (a private non-profit association) or SENCAMER (a body of the Ministry of Commerce). The relationship between the two bodies has deteriorated in the past few years, which has led to confusion and a lack of a normative standards regime.