There are reported complaints regarding the pendency of patent applications. This also impacts the effective term of patent protection, given that the patent's validity starts from the filing date (Art. 40 of the Brazilian Industrial Property Law (Law No. 9,279 of 1996).

Brazil is a party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).

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

In December 2007, the Brazilian authorities decided to impose a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of loudspeakers (HS codes: 8518.2100, 8518.2200 and 8518.2990) from China under Resolution No. 66. This measure was reviewed and extended in November 2013 and subsequently, in November 2019 for a period of five years. The rate of duty is ad valorem 78.3% of the CIF value.

Art. 26:7 of the 2021 Procurement Law stipulates that the procurement of information technology and communications systems considered strategic by the Federal Government may be limited to technologies that are developed and manufactured within Brazil. Although Law No. 14,133 came into effect in April 2021, it did not repeal Law No. 8,666 until 30 December 2023. The latter law had previously included this restriction in Art. 3:12.

Art. 5 of Decree 7.174 of 12 May 2010 requires federal agencies and parastatal entities to give preferential treatment to domestically produced computer products and goods or services with technology developed in Brazil based on a price/technology matrix.

Art. 3 of Law 8,666 establishes that:
- under equal conditions, as a tie-breaking criterion, preference is given, successively, to goods and services produced in the country, produced or provided by Brazilian companies, produced or provided by companies that invest in research and technology development in the country;
- in the bidding processes, a margin of preference may be established for manufactured products and for national services that meet Brazilian technical standards, technological development and innovation carried out in the country. For manufactured products and national services resulting from technological development and innovation carried out in the country, an additional margin of preference may be established for that provided. These margins may be applied to goods and services from the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR). The Federal Executive Power establishes the margins, and their sum cannot exceed the amount of 25% of the price of foreign-manufactured products and services.

Art. 26 of Law No. 14,133 states that a margin of preference in the bidding process may be established in favour of domestic manufactured goods and services that meet Brazilian technical standards. This margin may be up to 10% on the price of goods and services and also be extended to manufactured goods and services originating in States that are part of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). The article also mentions that in the case of national manufactured goods and national services resulting from development and technological innovation in the country, the margin of preference may be up to 20%.

According to Section 29 of the Electronic Payments Services Regulations, licensees for electronic payment systems must adhere to transaction limits set in Schedule 3 of the regulations. Operating limits for account-based payment systems (e-money account, execution of card payment, credit transfers and direct debits) have a monthly aggregate transaction limit within the range of BWP 20,000 (approx. USD 1,750) to BWP 30,000 (approx. USD 2,600) for individual customers and BWP 50,000 (approx. USD 4,350) for SMEs, while for retail agents the monthly aggregate transaction limit is BWP 1,000,000 (approx. USD 87,000).

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

The Consumer Protection Act and the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act provide a comprehensive consumer protection framework that applies to online transactions.

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

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