According to Art. 57 of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, regional or international open competitive tendering is only allowed in cases where sufficient competition does not exist in Saint Lucia and only above SDR 155,000 (approx. USD 241,000) for contracting goods and services (Schedule 3).

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

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

The Philippines has not adopted national legislation based on or influenced by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on Electronic Signatures.

The Philippines has signed the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts in 2007, and ratified in it July 2022. The Convention will enter into force in February 2023.

The Electronic Commerce Act 2000 and the Consumer Act provide a comprehensive framework for consumer protection that also applies to online transactions. According to Art. 34 of the Commerce Act 2000, violations of the Consumer Act or Republic Act No. 7394 and other relevant or pertinent laws through transactions made through electronic data messages or electronic documents shall be punishable with the same penalties provided in said laws.

The Philippines' de minimis threshold, which is the minimum value of goods below which customs do not charge duties, has increased from PhP 10 (0.2 USD) to PhP 10,000 (USD 206) since the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (RA 10863) was passed in 2016.

According to Executive Order No. 65, the Philippines imposes a ban on foreign ownership of retail trade enterprises with paid-up capital of less than USD 2.5 million. The Philippine government regularly releases the Foreign Investment Negative List, and this serves as the basis for which sectors are restricted. Multiple regulatory opinions and related legislation affect this ban on foreign ownership.

Self-certification is not allowed for telecommunications, wireless and radio equipment. Certification of some equipment types requires testing at the incumbent telecom carrier laboratories, while for other categories approval is based on review of foreign standard test reports. The Philippines' National Telecommunication Commission also issues certification of telecom equipment to be connected to public network services.

Audio and video products such as TVs and LCD panels marketed in the Philippines are required to be certified according to the relevant Philippine PNS safety standard (which is equivalent to the international IEC 60065:2007). There are two options:
- a voluntary license to use the Philippine Standard PS-mark on manufactured products as granted by the Bureau of Product Standards (BPS); or
- use of stickers with the mandatory Import Commodity Clearance (ICC)-mark on imported products.
It is required to test the product within the Philippines and also to apply via a local representative. For the PS-mark, periodical factory audits are also needed.

In 2017, the Philippine government enacted the Philippine National Strategic Goods List Annex 2, regulating the strategic dual-use items for both export and import for national security reasons. Some of these dual-use items are electronics and computers that reach a specific technical level that qualifies them as fit for military use.

In 2017, the Philippine government enacted the Philippine National Strategic Goods List Annex 2, regulating the strategic dual-use items for both export and import for national security reasons. Some of these dual-use items are electronics and computers that reach a specific technical level that qualifies them as fit for military use.

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 Philippines. This corresponds to "Rarely but there have been a few occasions throughout the year when the government shut down domestic access to Internet."

A basic legal framework on intermediary liability is absent in Philippine law and jurisprudence. Arguably, safe harbor clauses are present in the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000 (RA 8792) and the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (RA 10175), but these laws’ definition of an intermediary limits its capacity to provide a safe harbor. Particularly, RA 8792’s scope is limited to electronic documents, while RA 10175 is limited to cybercrimes defined under the law. This makes safe harbors in Philippine law sectoral or content-specific.