The Commerce Department announced Friday that it would prohibit U.S. business transactions with messaging app WeChat beginning September 20 and video-sharing app TikTok on November 12.
"At the president's direction, we have taken significant action to combat China's malicious collection of American citizens' personal data, while promoting our national values, democratic rules-based norms, and aggressive enforcement of U.S. laws and regulations,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement.
In an executive order last month, President Trump had effectively banned Tencent Holdings’ WeChat and Bytedance’s TikTok over national security concerns.
The president had given ByteDance 45 days — creating a September 20 deadline — to sell its U.S. TikTok operations to an American company or face a ban.
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