The Commerce Department will prohibit U.S. business transactions with messaging app WeChat starting Sept. 20 and video-sharing app TikTok starting Nov. 12.

The Commerce Department announced Friday morning that it will prohibit U.S. business transactions with messaging app WeChat starting Sept. 20 and video-sharing app TikTok on Nov. 12. “At the president’s direction, we have taken significant action to combat China’s malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data, while promoting our national values, democratic rules-based norms, and aggressive enforcement of U.S. laws and regulations," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement. The moves were telegraphed in an executive order from President Trump earlier this summer banning transactions with WeChat, owned by Tencent Holdings, and TikTok, owned by Bytedance.

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