Further Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay
Signed: September 16, 2025
Published: September 23, 2025
Document Number: 2025-18482
đSummary
This executive order extends the federal pause on enforcing the law targeting âforeign adversary controlledâ apps as it applies to TikTok, pushing the deadline to December 16, 2025. It affects the Department of Justice, app stores and other providers that distribute or support TikTok (and similar covered apps), and indirectly TikTok and its users. It directs the Justice Department not to enforce the law or impose penalties during the extended period, and also not to penalize anyone later for actions taken during this period or earlier periods covered by prior delays. It instructs the Attorney General to issue written guidance and send letters to providers stating there was no violation and no liability for covered conduct, and to use available authority to block state or private attempts to enforce the law, asserting enforcement is exclusively federal.
đźBusiness Impact
This order most directly affects app stores, cloud/hosting providers, ad-tech platforms, social media agencies/influencers, and any business that markets or sells via TikTok (including eâcommerce brands and local service businesses). It extends the federal enforcement pause until **Dec. 16, 2025** and instructs DOJ to issue written guidance and âno liabilityâ letters to providers, creating a near-term opportunity to keep TikTok distribution/updates and TikTok-based marketing running without federal penalties for conduct during the covered periods. Compliance-wise, businesses should still treat this as a **temporary reprieve**: immediately (1) monitor DOJ guidance/letters and update vendor risk files, (2) review contracts with marketing agencies/platform partners for âplatform shutdownâ contingencies, and (3) diversify customer acquisition (shift budget/tests to Reels/Shorts/search/email/SMS) and build first-party audiences so revenue isnât dependent on TikTok if enforcement resumes after Dec. 16.
Full Text
Executive Order 14350 of September 16, 2025
Further Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1 . Extension. (a) The enforcement delay specified in section 2(a) of Executive Order 14166 of January 20, 2025 (Application of Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act to TikTok), as extended by Executive Order 14258 of April 4, 2025 (Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay), and Executive Order 14310 of June 19, 2025 (Further Extending the TikTok Enforcement Delay), is further extended until December 16, 2025. During this period, the Department of Justice shall take no action to enforce the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the “Act”) (Public Law 118-50, Div. H) or impose any penalties against any entity for any noncompliance with the Act, including for distributing, maintaining, or updating (or enabling the distribution, maintenance, or updating of) any foreign adversary controlled application as defined in the Act. In light of this direction, even after the expiration of the above-specified period, the Department of Justice shall not take any action to enforce the Act or impose any penalties against any entity for any conduct that occurred during the above-specified period or any period prior to the issuance of this order, including the period of time from January 19, 2025, until the date of this order.
(b) The Attorney General shall take all appropriate action to issue written guidance to implement the provisions of subsection (a) of this section.
(c) The Attorney General shall further issue a letter to each provider stating that there has been no violation of the statute and that there is no liability for any conduct that occurred during the above-specified period, as well as for any conduct from the effective date of the Act until the date of this order.
(d) Because of the national security interests at stake and because section 2(d) of the Act vests authority for investigations and enforcement of the Act only in the Attorney General, attempted enforcement by the States or private parties represents an encroachment on the powers of the Executive. The Attorney General shall exercise all available authority to preserve and defend the Executive's exclusive authority to enforce the Act.
Sec. 2 . General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
( printed page 45904)(d) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of Justice.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
September 16, 2025.