A license is required to engage in e-commerce, just like any other type of commerce. The commercial code and the Commercial registration & licensing proclamation do not prescribe discriminatory conditions for foreign services suppliers to obtaining license. For some sectors like finance, special laws prescribe the procedures of licensing and investment in those sectors is reserved for Ethiopian nationals & diaspora only. For the rest of trade sectors that are open to foreign investors, there is no licensing procedures that discriminate between local and foreign digital service providers.