It is reported that the de minimis threshold, that is the minimum value of goods below which customs do not charge duties, is KAF 70000 (approx. USD 110), below the 200 USD threshold recommended by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Cameroon has a safe harbour regime in place for intermediaries for copyright infringements. Art. 34.2 of Law No. 2010/012 stipulates that intermediaries (defined as anyone who, even free of charge, stores signals, writings, images, sounds or messages of any kind provided by the recipients of these services) are not liable in the following cases:
- They were not effectively aware of their unlawful nature or of facts and circumstances showing this nature;
- If they learned of the facts, they acted promptly to remove this data or make it impossible to access it.

Cameroon has a safe harbour regime in place for intermediaries beyond copyright infringements. Art. 34.2 of Law No. 2010/012 stipulates that intermediaries (defined as anyone who, even free of charge, stores signals, writings, images, sounds or messages of any kind provided by the recipients of these services) are not liable in the following cases:
- They were not effectively aware of their unlawful nature or of facts and circumstances showing this nature;
- If they learned of the facts, they acted promptly to remove this data or make it impossible to access it.

According to Art. 55 of Law No. 2010/013, operators of electronic communications networks open to the public, as well as service providers, are required at the time of any subscription to proceed to register the identification of subscribers and terminals.

The indicator "6.2.4 - 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 3 in Cameroon for the year 2023. This corresponds to "Rarely but there have been a few occasions throughout the year when the government shut down domestic access to Internet."

According to Art. 13 of Law No. 2006/018, foreign operators wishing to carry out any advertising activity in the territory of Cameroon must conclude an agreement of representation to this effect with a Cameroonian operator duly approved for the advertising profession concerned. This also applies to online advertising.

Cameroon has not signed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty.

Cameroon has not signed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

Cameroon lacks a comprehensive framework in place that provides effective protection of trade secrets, but there are provisions addressing disclosure, acquisition or use of confidential information in the course of industrial or commercial activities by third parties in Art. 6 of Annex VIII of the Bangui Agreement ratified by 17 French-speaking States, including Cameroon since 2002.

It is reported that there is an obligation for passive infrastructure sharing in Cameroon to deliver telecom services to end users. Moreover, passive infrastructure sharing is practised in the mobile and fixed sectors based on commercial agreements.

The incumbent telecom provider, CAMTEL, is a fully state-owned enterprise.

It is reported that Cameroon 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 2015.

Cameroon has not appended the World Trade Organization (WTO) Telecom Reference Paper to its schedule of commitments.

It is reported that the "Agence de Régulation des Télécommunications" (ART), the executive authority for the supervision and administration of services in the telecommunications sector, is independent from the government in the decision-making process.

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