The US Commerce Department decided to postpone the implementation of its decision to ban the application of TikTok owned by China, in the United States, by Thursday, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The ministry cited in its decision, a verdict in a federal court in Philadelphia, which came after a lawsuit filed by three Chinese app stars, comedian Douglas Marland, fashion expert Cosette Renap, and musician Alex Chambers.
On August 14, President Donald Trump issued an order requesting that the Chinese company's ownership of the app be limited within 90 days.
The US Commerce Department statement said that the ban order would not go into effect "pending further legal developments."
Under the decision of the Ministry of Commerce, the implementation of a regulation that was scheduled to enter into force Thursday will be postponed, preventing US companies such as Apple and Amazon from providing TikTok services.
The company "ByteDance", which owns the video-sharing application "TikTok", had submitted a petition Tuesday to the US Court of Appeals to demand the suspension of the ban.
There was no immediate comment from the White House and the US Treasury on the decision.
The application has more than 100 million users in the United States, and the US administration has issued a decision to ban it due to concerns related to national security and to protect American user data from the possibility of its exploitation by the ruling Communist Party in China.
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