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Global Trade Alert

United States of America: Restrictions on the social media platform WeChat

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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Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

0 in force

Implementation date

20 Sep 2020

Revocation date:

No revocation date

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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