According to Section 1 of Art. 31 of The Data Protection Act, personal data shall not be transferred to a State or territory outside of Jamaica unless that State or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data. However, according to Section 3 of Art. 31, the aforementioned condition is not necessary for a transfer that falls within any of the cases specified in subsection 4, including:
- The interested individual consents to the transfer;
- The transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract between the data subject and the data processor;
- The transfer is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest;
- The transfer is necessary for the purpose of, or in connection with, any legal proceedings (including possible legal proceedings);
- The transfer is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject;
- The transfer is made on terms that are of a kind approved by the Commissioner as ensuring adequate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of data subjects;
- The Commissioner has authorised the transfer to be made in a manner that ensures adequate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of data subjects;
- The transfer is necessary for the purposes of national security or the prevention, detection, or investigation of criminal offences.

Jamaica has not joined any free trade agreement committing to open transfers of cross-border data flows.

The Data Protection Act provides a comprehensive regime of data protection.

Concerns about corruption are particularly pronounced in Jamaica’s public procurement processes. Reported vulnerabilities include limited scrutiny of contract-award procedures and transparency gaps, and the Integrity Commission has issued investigation reports identifying procurement irregularities and conflicts of interest in the award of public contracts. Procurement delays have also been highlighted as a practical constraint on implementation capacity.

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

Under the Companies Act, all private entities, domestic and foreign, have the right to establish and own business enterprises. Jamaica imposes no limits on foreign ownership or control, and local laws do not distinguish between local and foreign investors.

According to Art. 120 of the Patents and Designs Act, every applicant must provide, and every application must contain, an address for service within Jamaica.

Jamaica is a party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

Jamaica has a clear regime of copyright exceptions that follows the fair dealing model, which enables the lawful use of copyrighted work by others without obtaining permission. Art. 52 of the Copyright Act provides that the fair dealing of literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works for the purposes of research or private study does not infringe copyright in the work or, in the case of a published edition, in the typographical arrangement.

Jamaica has ratified the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty.

Jamaica has ratified the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonogram Treaty.

Jamaica does not have a comprehensive framework for protecting trade secrets, but common law principles and contractual arrangements reportedly do so.

Section 29A of the Telecommunications Act empowers the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) to impose a passive infrastructure-sharing obligation on a licensee where it deems it justified. In the exercise of the OUR's authority as conferred by Section 29A of the Act, the Infrastructure Sharing Rules were enacted. Rule 4 stipulates that a licensee shall share its infrastructure with another licensee if the licensee is classified as a dominant public communications carrier or if the infrastructure is funded, in whole or in part, by government funding.

Jamaica does not mandate functional separation for operators with significant market power (SMP) in the telecom market. However, there has been an obligation of accounting separation since 2000. Section 30 of The Telecommunications Act makes it obligatory for each dominant public telecommunications carrier to “keep separate accounts in such form and containing such particulars as will enable the Office to assess whether that carrier provides interconnection services in accordance with the principles specified” at paragraph 1.4. A more general provision is set out in Section 4(5), which provides for the Office to “make rules prescribing the system of regulatory accounts to be kept by a dominant carrier or service provider”.

Jamaica has appended the World Trade organization (WTO) Telecom Reference Paper to its schedule of commitments.