The President Donald Trump He said that would extend the June 19 term so that the Chinese company Bytedonce emerges from the US assets of TiktoK If by then an agreement has not been reached.
“I would like to see it done,” Trump told the NBC news program “Meet The Press With Kristen Welker” in an interview recorded on Friday at Trump Mar-a-Lago farm in Palm Beach, and which is broadcast on Sunday.
Trump said he had a “Sweet Point” For the application after he helped him win young voters in the presidential elections of 2024, he added: “Tiktok is very interesting, but will be protected.”
Trump has already granted twice a postponement to the application of a prohibition imposed by Congress that initially had to go into force in January.
An agreement had been brewing that would split the local Tiktok operations in a new firm based in the United States and the majority and operated by US investors, but was suspended after China indicated that it would not approve it after the Trump ads of strong tariffs to their products.
Democratic senators argue that Trump has no legal authority to extend the deadline, and suggest that the agreement that had been considering would not meet the legal requirements.
A source close to Jytedance American investors He said last month that he is still working on the possible agreement before the June deadline, but stressed that the White House and Beijing would have to first resolve the tariff dispute.
Trump declared NBC News that China was looking forward to reaching an agreement, citing the impact that 145% tariffs were having in their economy. He said he wouldn’t go down tariffs To take Beijing to the negotiating tablebut that could eventually reduce them as part of a broader agreement.
“At some point I will lower them because, otherwise, we could never do business with them. And they really want to do business,” he said.
The law forced Tiktok to stop operating before January 19 unless Bytedance had completed the divestment of its assets in the United States.
Trump began his second term as president on January 20 and chose not to apply it. First he extended the deadline until the beginning of April and, last month, until June 19.
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