Trump reportedly plans to increase the pause on the TikTok ban but once more

President Donald Trump plans to increase the pause on implementing the TikTok ban as soon as once more, The Wall Street Journal reports. Trump beforehand extended the pause on April 4 to present TikTok, its potential US consumers and the Chinese language authorities extra time to succeed in an settlement, however the deal has made little progress since then.

The present pause on enforcement is meant to finish on June 19. Given the state of the negotiations between the US and China, the chances of a deal being reached earlier than then appear extremely unlikely. The difficulty hasn’t been helped by the fluctuating tariffs the Trump administration has tried to levy on items manufactured outdoors of the US, which began on April 2 and at one level included a 125 percent tariff on all the pieces shipped from China.

The 2 international locations are anticipated to restart commerce negotiations sooner or later within the near-future, according to The New York Times, however there’s been no public point out of a TikTok sale being a key a part of the dialogue. A number of investors are nonetheless seeking to personal a bit of the US model of the app, together with the software program firm Oracle, which has a pre-existing relationship with TikTok as a cloud supplier.

The TikTok ban went into effect on January 19. TikTok tried to enchantment the ban beforehand, however the Supreme Court docket in the end decided to uphold it, prompting Trump’s first executive order pausing the ban on January 20, 2025.