Last week, the Department of Commerce took steps to implement sanctions targeting China's mobile applications WeChat, owned by Tencent Holdings Ltd. ("WeChat Sanctions"), and TikTok, owned by ByteDance Ltd. ("ByteDance") ("TikTok Sanctions"). These actions are in furtherance of Executive Orders 13943 and 13942, respectively, issued by the President on August 6, 2020, under the authority of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Among other things, starting tomorrow (September 20, 2020), U.S. online mobile application stores, and any U.S. online marketplace, will be prohibited from selling the WeChat and TikTok applications.