Cuba is a party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). However, the country does not consider itself bound by Art. 59 related to disputes.

Cuba has a copyright regime under the Law No. 154 of 2022. However, the exceptions do not follow the fair use or fair dealing model, therefore limiting the lawful use of copyrighted work by others. Art. 86 lists the exceptions, including the use of: creations in accessible formats for persons with disabilities, to the extent required by them; conferences, speeches and other works of the same nature, broadcast in public, when such use is justified by the informative purpose pursued; creations resulting from academic or research activities, such as degree works, science, technology and innovation projects, academic articles; among others.

According to Art. 15.4 of Decree-Law 290/2012, an agent residing in Cuba must mediate in the event that the patent applicant does not have a domicile or real and effective industrial establishment or commercial establishment in Cuba.

According to Art. 28.2, the nationality or residence status of directors is not limited to Cubans and does not require that at least some be Cuban. This is left up to the companies. However, Art. 28.1 requires that employees must be national or reside in the country.

Art. 1 of Resolution No. 206/2018 on Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment establishes the Commission for the Evaluation of Businesses with Foreign Investment as the advisory body of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment in charge of monitoring and evaluating matters that are submitted to the consideration of that body or correspond to it in accordance with its functions. Art. 22 establishes that the controls and analysis of the Commission are based on economic and social criteria that include studies on the impact of the investment in the local market, its duration, the social objective of the project, the potential for job creation and the origin of the supply of labor force, and the data belonging to the investors themselves. In addition, within the indicators, there are also those that concern the impact on the environment as part of the evaluation. Resolution No. 207 establishes three annexes of the methodologies to be followed for the controls and evaluations of businesses with foreign investment.

The only internet provider company in Cuba is the state company "Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A." (ETECSA). According to Decree Law No. 35 in its Title III - Art. 1, "The Cuban State is the owner of public telecommunications services and has the power to regulate, order, control and supervise the different telecommunications/ICT services and networks." ETECSA has been a monopoly since 2003, as the result of its merger with CUBACEL. At that time, the provision of fixed-line telephone operation services and mobile providers was unified. Since then, additional telecommunications services have been provided exclusively by ETECSA.

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

Arts. 85 and 86 of the Decree-Law No. 35 establish that telecommunication services have to be provided by state companies, therefore excluding foreign companies. Currently, the "Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A" (ETECSA) has full ownership of telecommunications services, including basic telephone services, signal conduction, data transmission, cellular land mobile telecommunications, virtual telephony, public telephone booths and stations, Internet access, trunked mobile radio communication, provision of applications in the Internet environment and subscription television.

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

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

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

Law No. 7472 for the Promotion of Competition and Effective Consumer Defence, passed in 1994, provides a comprehensive framework for consumer protection that also applies to online transactions. This law structures the legal and institutional framework for protecting consumer rights and replaced ex-ante control and pricing with an ex-post monitoring system. In addition, Chapter X of Regulation No. 37899-MEIC regulates consumer protection specifically in the context of electronic commerce.

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

Costa Rica does not implement any de minimis threshold, which is the minimum value of goods below which customs do not charge duties.