Announcement
06 Aug 2020
By executive order and subject to a 45-day limit, the president prohibited operations in the United States by TikTok’s parent company ByteDance Ltd.
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Number of interventions
1
1 certainly harmful
0 likely harmful
0 liberalising
List of interventions
Implementation date
20 Sep 2020
Revocation date:
11 Jun 2021
To be terminated: 11 Jun 2021
Controls on commercial transactions and investment instruments
On August 6, 2020 President Trump invoked his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National Emergencies Act to issue an executive order restricting the operations of...
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