Naija Tech News on August 7 According to The Verge, US President Trump has just signed a new executive order that will block all transactions with TikTok’s parent company Bytedance in order to “solve the supply of information and communication technology. National emergencies in the chain”. If ByteDance does not sell TikTok within 45 days, it will be banned by the United States.
At the same time, another order will prohibit transactions with WeChat, which has a small number of users in the United States.
Naija Tech News learned that in these two orders, Trump used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National Emergencies Act to authorize this. The continued operation of TikTok in the United States is also referred to as a “national emergency” .
According to The Verge analysis, the executive authorities have the right to impose sanctions on individuals and companies by including them on the “Entity List”, but these sanctions are usually imposed by the Department of Commerce rather than the White House and subject to specific rulemaking procedures. The two executive orders signed by Trump today seem to circumvent these.
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