Add TikTok and WeChat providers to the Entity List

Research notes

Searched and not found. BIS published eight Entity List rules in the window (2025-03-28 ×2, 2025-09-16, 2025-09-30, 2025-10-09, 2025-11-12, 2026-08-24 ×2). A full-text search of every Federal Register document published since 2025-01-20 returns no BIS rule naming ByteDance, TikTok, WeChat or Tencent: “ByteDance” appears in five documents (two TikTok executive orders, an ITC investigation notice, an FCC proposed rule and a FAR overhaul), “Tencent” in one (a Defense Department notice of designation of Chinese military companies under 10 U.S.C. 1260H, 2026-06-10 — https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/10/2026-11571/notice-of-availability-of-designation-of-chinese-military-companies), and “WeChat” in none. The 1260H list is a Defense Department list with procurement consequences, not the Commerce Entity List the Mandate names.

Moved the other way. The administration spent the window keeping TikTok available rather than restricting its provider:

• EO 14166, Application of Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act to TikTok (signed 2025-01-20), https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/30/2025-02087/application-of-protecting-americans-from-foreign-adversary-controlled-applications-act-to-tiktok
• Three further enforcement delays: 2025-04-04 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/09/2025-06162/extending-the-tiktok-enforcement-delay), 2025-06-19 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/24/2025-11682/further-extending-the-tiktok-enforcement-delay) and 2025-09-16 (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/23/2025-18482/further-extending-the-tiktok-enforcement-delay)
• EO Saving TikTok While Protecting National Security (signed 2025-09-25), https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/30/2025-19139/saving-tiktok-while-protecting-national-security

Under playbook §3b the two orders that frame the sequence — EO 14166 and EO 14352 — now carry as evidence on the not started event; the three intermediate enforcement delays stay here so the frontmatter records the shape of the retreat rather than every step of it. (This supersedes the Chapter 10 convention of keeping contrary URLs in the body.)

Reginfo agenda sweep, 2026-09-01 (§3b). The seventeen active RINs of the DOC/BIS slice of the 2026 Unified Agenda (agencyCd=0600, pubId=202510, published in the Federal Register 2026-08-14) were re-read against the rule settled 2026-09-01 — a dated agenda entry naming the ask’s object is attempted. RIN 0694-AK42 Revisions to the Entity List (Final Rule Stage, final action 07/2026) is the one entry on the Entity List itself, and its abstract names no party; “TikTok”, “ByteDance”, “WeChat” and “Tencent” appear nowhere in the seventeen-RIN slice. Under §3b an omnibus Entity List entry does not answer an ask that names particular providers. Subject area only — Status unchanged.