Art. 25.1 of the Organic Law on National System of Public Procurement provides that the tender documents must contain evaluation criteria that encourage and promote local and national participation, through a margin of preference for suppliers of works, goods and services, including consultancy, of local and national origin. Art. 37 of the General Regulations to the Organic Law of the National Public Procurement System further clarifies the margins of preference.

Art. 25.2 of the Organic Law on National System of Public Procurement provides that preference must be given to the bidder of goods, works or services that incorporates a greater component of Ecuadorian origin or to actors of the popular and solidarity economy and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), through the application of mechanisms such as: proportional margins of preference over the bids of other suppliers, market reserve, delivery of advances, preferential subcontracting, among others. Art. 38 of the General Regulations to the Organic Law of the National Public Procurement System further clarifies the preference for MSMEs and actors of the popular and solidarity economy.

Art. 25.2 of the Organic Law on National System of Public Procurement provides that the entity in charge of public procurement must include the obligation of technology and knowledge transfer in all procurement of non-Ecuadorian origin.

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

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

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

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

Law No. 358-05 provides a comprehensive framework for consumer protection that also applies to online transactions.

According to Decree No. 402-05 approving the Regulations for the Express Dispatch of Shipments, the de minimis threshold, that is the minimum value of goods below which customs do not charge duties, is USD 200.

According to Art. 29 of Law No. 183-02 foreign exchange brokerage may only be carried out by authorized financial brokerage entities and by Exchange Agents. Art. 30 states that to be an Exchange Agent it is necessary to be constituted as a joint stock company organized in accordance with the laws of the Dominican Republic, with the objects clause and the exclusive habitual activity of carrying out exchange intermediation in free market conditions in the national territory, as well as abroad under the modality of remittance company.

Self-certification is allowed for foreign businesses. According to chapter IX of the Telecommunications Law, Art. 61, any terminal, equipment or system likely to be connected to a public telecommunications network, or which uses the public telecommunications network, or which uses the public radio-electric domain, must have the corresponding have the corresponding homologation certificate. It is reported that the following products require INDOTEL’s approval: Tablets; Personal trackers; Wireless microphones; 3G/4G mobile phones; RFID equipment; Radio alarms; Laptops.

A basic legal framework on intermediary liability beyond copyright infringement is absent in Dominican Republic's law and jurisprudence.

It is reported that the Dominican Republic imposes an identity requirement for SIM registration. Anyone wanting to purchase a SIM card has to provide their national ID card, or a passport in case of foreigners, to activate a new prepaid SIM card.

Chapter XV of the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) of 2007 between the United States of America, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua devotes its Art. 27 to the limitations of liability of intermediaries for copyright infringement in the digital environment. This is applicable in the country by mandate of Art. 26.2 of the Constitution of the Republic, which establishes that the rules in force of ratified international conventions shall govern internally. However, it is reported that, in practice, there have been cases in 2013 in which the courts have considered that companies liable not only for violating copyright, but also for the mere fact of hosting the website where the infringement takes place and therefore encouraging the infringement through its economic sponsorship.