TikTok has 170 million U.S. users. U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly delayed enforcing a law that banned the short-video app pending a divestment deal with ByteDance.

U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order later this week that declares that a deal to divest TikTok’s U.S. operations from its Chinese owner ByteDance will meet requirements set out in a 2024 law, a White House official said on Monday.

The United States is confident that China has approved the deal and does not plan further talks with Beijing about its details, the official told reporters on a conference call, but added that additional paperwork is required from both sides to approve the deal.

Trump is trying to keep the short video app with 170 million U.S. users from being banned after Congress

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