According to Art. 3 (a) of the Foreign Direct Investment Law, full foreign ownership is allowed. Unless stipulated by international agreements or other special laws, foreign investors are free to make investments and shall be subject to equal treatment as domestic investors.

As of 2019, online media service providers, including on-demand service providers, must obtain a new license for online broadcasting and must be established in Türkiye in accordance with the provisions of the Turkish Commercial Code.

E-money and e-payment service providers must be licensed by the Central Bank of Türkiye in order to operate in Türkiye. Furthermore, e-money institutions and payment service providers are required to establish their Turkish entities and localise their Turkish businesses by June 2015. The conditions and procedures for foreign payment service providers who wish to provide payment services in Türkiye are currently under review.

Türkiye is a signatory of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Information Technology Agreement (ITA) of 1996 but is not a signatory of its 2015 expansion (ITA II).

In July 2021, the Turkish authorities imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of stainless steel welded pipes, tubes and profiles (HS:560311) from Vietnam. These products can be used for server cabinets, racks for network equipment, structures for telecommunications antennas, as well as to manufacture machinery and equipment used in the production of ICT goods. The rate of the duty ranges from 19.64% to 25%, depending on the company.

Circular No. 2019/12 provides that data of public institutions and organisations should not be stored in cloud storage services except for the institutions’ own private systems or local service providers controlled by the institutions.

It is reported that Türkiye frequently issues regulations that exempt urgent projects and procurements from requirements of the Turkish Public Tender Law, allowing entities to conduct tenders or negotiations on an invitational basis. While these exempted tenders technically are open to foreign as well as domestic firms, it is reported that, in practice, few of these have been awarded to foreign firms unless they were offering goods or services that were urgently needed and not available in Türkiye.

According to Art. 63 of the Public Procurement Law, it is possible for contracting authorities to insert provisions to the tender documents indicating that the tender is exclusively open to domestic tenderers.

According to Art. 8 of Decree-Law No. 14-1961, foreigners cannot engage in certain specified business activities, such as wholesale distribution and retail trading, except where the Minister of Trade grants a waiver. Foreigners wishing to engage in commercial activity are required to obtain a foreigner’s trading permit from the Minister of Commerce. This applies to any form of provision of commerce, including e-commerce. This text has not been revised since 1985. It is reported that foreigners may, however, set up international trading companies provided that at least 30% of the company's annual turnover is derived from the export of goods of Tunisian origin.

According to Arts. 14-18 of the Circular 2016-9 of the Central Bank of Tunisia on transfers for current operations, amended by Circular No. 2019-2, online cross-border purchases are limited to certain online telecommunication services listed in Annex 1, and it is not possible to purchase services not included in the list of Annex 1. The list of commercial operations for which a user can make a payment online is quite limited and does not include e-retail. Among the permitted activities, are the reservation of hotels abroad and the payment of tariffs for the import of goods. In addition, Art. 15 of Circular lets Tunisian residents with at least a high school diploma use a special "International Technology Card" for those online payments that are allowed with a maximum annual limit of TND 1,000 (approx. 320 USD) for specific online expenses. The Circular was amended by Circular No. 2019-2, updating Art.14, which set the highest annual limit for this special card at TND 10,000 (approx. 3,200 USD) for resident companies. Companies with the "startup" label have a maximum yearly allocation of TND 100,000 (approx. 32,000 USD).

Art. 8 of Decree-Law No. 14-1961 prohibits foreigners from engaging in certain specified business activities, such as wholesale distribution and retail trading, except where the Minister of Trade grants a waiver. Foreigners wishing to engage in commercial activity are required to obtain a foreigner’s trading permit from the Minister of Commerce. This applies to any form of provision of commerce, including e-commerce. This text has not been revised since 1985.

It is reported that there are restrictions on international payments due to Tunisia’s foreign exchange regulations as well as the non-convertibility of the TND. Tunisian credit cards are not approved for transactions in currencies other than the TND and, therefore, cannot be used for purchases made on foreign commercial internet sites. This prevents Tunisian residents from making transactions on international e-commerce sites such as eBay, Amazon, and AliExpress unless they obtain a “Digital Technology Charge Card” issued by the Government. This card was launched in 2015 by the Ministry of Communication Technologies and Digital Economy with Circular 2015-5 of the Tunisian Central Bank. The card can be obtained only by Tunisians with college degrees, and it allows cardholders to make online purchases of software, mobile applications, web services, and publications in support of entrepreneurial activities. Individual users are limited to TND 1,000 (approx. USD 377) in annual purchases (Art. 1). The program has been expanded to include Tunisian IT companies, which are allotted up to TND 10,000 (approx. USD 3,770) annually to purchase online services, including server hosting and freelance programming services.

It is reported that Tunisia does not implement any de minimis threshold, which is the minimum value of goods below which customs do not charge duties.

According to Art. 8.1 of the Decision of the National Telecommunication Authority No. 141-2013, local domain name registration including ".com.tn" is restricted and limited to the following eligibility criteria: legal entities constituted according to the Tunisian laws in force, holders or legal representatives of an international trademark registered in Tunisia, natural persons of legal age of Tunisian nationality or officially residents in Tunisia.