Trump’s tariffs killed his TikTok deal

Earlier this week, erstwhile it seemed arsenic though TikTok’s destiny successful the US would really beryllium decided by April 5th, everyone — from Amazon to the laminitis of OnlyFans — was coming retired of the woodwork to bargain it.

As it turns out, nary of them had a chance. And now, acknowledgment to President Donald Trump’s tariff war, nary 1 whitethorn get to bargain TikTok. 

People acquainted with the substance archer maine that, contempt each of the bids for the app, the White House was lone earnestly considering an Oracle-led consortium, which included galore of ByteDance’s biggest investors who were acceptable to rotation their stakes into a new, US entity. 

The proposal, which would person licensed the app’s algorithm from China and shuffled immoderate shareholder wealth astir to marque TikTok look much autarkic from ByteDance, was acceptable to beryllium announced earlier President Trump went atomic connected tariffs. As others person reported and I’ve independently confirmed, his tariff announcement connected Wednesday torched immoderate contiguous accidental of the TikTok connection being blessed by the Chinese government. 

On Friday, little than an hr aft Trump said helium was pushing backmost the clock connected banning TikTok by different 75 days to decorativeness moving retired a deal, ByteDance …

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