Kevin Wolf Quoted in Financial Times on Possible Entity List Addition for TikTok
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Financial Times has quoted Akin Gump international trade partner Kevin Wolf in the article “US weighs ban on TikTok as friction with China rises.” The article reports that the Trump administration, as a way of preventing China from obtaining personal data, is considering putting the TikTok video app on a blacklist that would, effectively, prevent Americans from using it.
Placing TikTok on the Commerce Department’s Entity List, the article says, would make it difficult for U.S. companies to provide it with technology. The restrictions would include software, meaning that Apple and other app stores could no longer provide updates over their platforms.
Wolf, who previously led the Commerce Department division that oversees the Entity List, observed that the Trump administration has been increasingly willing to broaden the way the List is used in policymaking.
“This administration has expanded it to more economic considerations involving [intellectual property] theft and to its credit it has been more willing to use the entity list to go after human rights issues,” said Wolf, pointing to the Chinese detention camps where more than one million Uighurs are being held in Xinjiang province.
Wolf also pointed out that there had never been a legal challenge brought against an Entity List move, saying companies generally worked with the Commerce Department to find solutions.
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