The technological developments in the area of cyberspace have transformed e-commerce in many
nations and their internet economies in the past few decades. The advances in these
technologies coupled with the mushrooming of Cyberspace frauds by internet hackers and crackers
have ensued in a very complicated problem for both developed and developing nations. The
internet economy being a recent development in many countries of the world has not yet grown
to its fullest measure. However multiplicities of threats including the infringement of cyber
security policies cyber crimes and other online business frauds have come to be the chief
hitches that impede the development of e-commerce in general and the internet economy in
particular. Cross-Border E-commerce underlies the increasing trends of internet economies in
different countries including both the developed and developing countries. The boosting of
these internet economies through cross-border e-commerce have attracted the attentions of many
improper online embezzlers who always strive to industrialize the underground internet
economies gained through online business frauds cyber crimes and so many other improper online
business transactions. Lots of efforts have been exerted by many countries the major ones
being the US and the UK to halt the threats of business frauds in e-commerce and cyberspace
insecurity which would otherwise jeopardize both small scale and large scale online businesses
in these countries. Besides many intergovernmental organizations including the United Nations
(UN) the European Union (EU) the African Union (AU) the Organization of American States(OAS)
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD) and United Nations Commission for
Trade And Development(UNCTAD) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa(UNECA) just to
name few have began the work of comprehensively studying the threats targeted at the
development of e-commerce and related cybercrimes. In fact the US and the EU have been praised
to have done a pioneering work of regulating the legal atmosphere of cross-border e-commerce to
make an effective cross-border e-commerce possible. Cross-border e-commerce has been a very
recent and infant development in Ethiopia. Ethiopia does not have an orchestrated system for
regulating cross-border e-commerce. This work explores the experiences of the EU and other
International Organizations in regulating cross-border e-commerce and recommends Ethiopia to
draw workable lessons particularly from the EU experiences to buttress the current efforts to
design the legal architecture for an effective cross-border e-commerce in the country.
