Announcement
06 Aug 2020
By executive order and subject to a 45-day limit, the president prohibited operations in the United States by WeChat’s parent company Tencent Holdings Ltd.
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1 certainly harmful
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Implementation date
20 Sep 2020
Revocation date:
11 Jun 2021
Updated: 06 Aug 2020
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...
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