Bipartisan House Duo Wants ByteDance Trade Restrictions
The Commerce Department should add ByteDance to its foreign trade restriction list to safeguard American data, Reps. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., wrote Thursday. Commerce should add the TikTok parent company to the Bureau of Industry and Security’s…
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entity list: “This step would be instrumental in applying licensing restrictions to the export of software from the U.S. to ByteDance for its applications. If American users aren't able to upgrade their app with software updates, which involves the export of U.S. software, then the operability of the applications of concern will be weakened.” They noted the department took similar action against Huawei and non-U.S. affiliates in 2019. The department didn’t comment.