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

Arts. 43.4 and 73 of Ordinance No. 2019-679 provide that any contracting authority must apply a margin of preference of not more than 15% to:
- A bid submitted by a bidder who intends to subcontract at least 30% of the overall value of the contract concerned to a local small and medium-sized enterprise.
- Any bid submitted by a bidding community enterprise, that is, an enterprise whose registered office is located in a Member State of the West African Economic and Monetary Union.

Art. 19.4 of Ordinance No. 2019-679 provides that each contracting authority must set aside annually for small and medium-sized enterprises a minimum share of 30% of the estimated value of contracts for works, goods or services.

The public procurement process is reported to be legally open, but in some cases, it is perceived as opaque in practice, and public contracts are occasionally awarded outside of public tenders. Some foreign companies reportedly win contracts through long-standing relationships with government officials or with the help of partnerships with Ivorian business entities closely linked to the government. During tender negotiations, the Ivorian government imposes local content requirements on foreign companies. In addition, although there are regulations governing sole-source procurement, there have been instances where the government has awarded sole-source tenders without competitive bidding, citing a company's high technical capacity or declaring an emergency. Many companies continue to identify corruption as an obstacle to a transparent understanding of procurement decisions.

Certification of conformity must be approved by the Congolese Agency of Normalization and Quality (ACONOQ). ACONOQ is responsible for certifying the conformity of products, goods, services, management systems, and personnel competencies to standards. Furthermore, all imports into Congo must have a conformity certificate issued by ACONOQ. Although the homologation process does not require local labouratory testing or contact with local representatives, product samples must be submitted to the authority for inspection.

Art. 145 of the Law on Electronic Communication mandates the persons or suppliers of cryptology services to disclose the technical characteristics of the source code of the software to be used by the National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI).

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 Congo.

It is reported that the de minimis threshold, that is the minimum value of goods below which customs do not charge duties, is USD 12, below the 200 USD threshold recommended by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

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

Congo has signed and ratified the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts.

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

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

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 Congo for the year 2024. This corresponds to "The government shut down domestic access to the Internet several times this year."