Chile has ratified the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

Act No. 19,039 provides a framework for the effective protection of trade secrets. Arts. 86-88 refer to trade secrets as business secrets. A trade secret is any knowledge relating to products or industrial processes that, when kept secret, confers on its holder a competitive advantage. In order to claim the protection that the Chilean law grants to holders of trade secrets, it is necessary to meet these three requirements: 1) the information should always remain secret, which means that it should not be generally known or readily accessible to third parties; 2) the information must have trade value –or at least potential commercial value– for the SME, and it should be linked to the fact it is secret; 3) the holder of the trade secret must take “reasonable steps” to protect the information as confidential.

According to Art. 26 bis of Law No. 21.245, concessionaires of public telecom services that are assigned rights to use the radioelectric spectrum must allow access and use of their facilities to other public service concessionaires (or concessionaires that are interested in establishing themselves as such) for virtual mobile and automatic roaming operations.

It is reported that Chile does not mandate functional or accounting separation for operators with significant market power (SMP) in the telecom market.

Pursuant to Art. 21 of Law No. 18,168, telecom concessions may be granted only to private or public legal entities duly incorporated and domiciled in Chile. Moreover, according to Art. 24 (h), internet access providers are required to have a public telecommunications service concession or intermediate telecommunications service concession, as applicable, and they must guarantee a percentage of the average access speeds in accordance with Art. 24 (k).

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

According to Art. 67 of Decree No. 250, the tendering agency may establish the obligation to constitute a company of Chilean nationality or an agency in case a foreign company wins a public tender.

Chile has a telecommunications authority: The "Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones" (SUBTEL). However, it is reported that the decision-making process of this entity is not fully independent from the government.

Chile is not a party to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA). However, the country has been an observer of the WTO GPA since 1997.

Section IV.1.b.i of Chapter 20-7 of the Updated Compendium of Banking Regulations requires operators outsourcing data processing services outside the country to have a contingency data processing centre located in Chile. It is reported that this would not be very different from requiring the main centre to also be local. This requirement is for institutions that carry out activities abroad that are considered significant or strategic, and they must demonstrate a recovery time compatible with the criticality of the outsourced service.

Act No. 20,848 sets forth that foreign investors shall be treated in the same manner as local investors. Consequently, it is forbidden to discriminate against a foreign investor or a company that is majority- or minority-owned by these types of investors. Art. 9 states that foreign investors are subject to the same legal regime as national investors without arbitrary discrimination.

According to the App Transportation Companies Act (EAT), which regulates paid passenger transportation services offered through applications, any company wishing to provide passenger transportation services through applications must be registered in the Registry of App Transportation Companies supervised by the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications and be domiciled in Chile (Art. 4).
According to Art. 1, an application transport company covers any legal person that provides or makes available to persons a digital platform service, computer system or technology of any kind which allows a passenger to contact the owner, manager or driver of a small passenger transport vehicle, to be transported from a given origin to a given destination, upon payment of a fee for the service received.

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