2025-09-25
A White House Official tells me President Donald Trump is expected to sign the Executive Order tomorrow saying the TikTok deal meets the requirements of the law allowing TikTok to avoid a ban. #TikTok
NBC News
Trump plans to sign a TikTok deal on Thursday; source: TikTok US would be run by a new joint venture company, with ByteDance holding less than 20% of its stock
This structure will comply with a bipartisan law passed in 2024 that sought to ban TikTok if the platform were not sold to U.S.-based owners this year.
2025-05-13
U.S. Trade Representative Greer about China: “It's important to understand how quickly we were able to come to agreement, which reflects that perhaps the differences were not so large as maybe thought. That being said, there was a lot of groundwork that went into these two days.”
Financial Times
The US and China agree to a deal to lower tariffs for the next 90 days, a sign of easing tensions; the US plans to cut tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 30%
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2025-05-12
U.S. Trade Representative Greer about China: “It's important to understand how quickly we were able to come to agreement, which reflects that perhaps the differences were not so large as maybe thought. That being said, there was a lot of groundwork that went into these two days.”
Financial Times
The US and China agree to a deal to lower tariffs for the next 90 days, a sign of easing tensions; the US plans to cut tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 30%
Deal to reduce duties for next 90 days marks the first sign of tension easing between the two economic superpowers