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But earlier this month, Vice President JD Vance said he was hopeful a deal to keep TikTok operating in the U.S. will be wrapped up by the early April deadline. NBC News reported that Vance did not offer details on who thebut noted that some issues could push a final agreement past the deadline.

“We’d like to get it done without the extension,” Vance told the news outlet. “I think the question is, what is the equity ownership of the new joint venture? How do you do the contracts for all the investors, the customers, the service providers? … The deal itself will be very clear, but actually creating those thousands and thousands of pages of legal documents, that’s the one thing that I worry could slip.”TikTok and ByteDance have not publicly commented on the talks. It’s also unclear if ByteDance has changed its position on selling TikTok, which it said early last year it does not plan to do.If TikTok is not sold to an approved buyer by April 5, the original law that bans it nationwide would once again go into effect. However, the deadline for the executive order doesn’t appear to be set in stone and the president has reiterated it could be extended further if needed.

Trump’s order came a few days after thethat required ByteDance to divest or be banned in January. The day after the ruling, TikTok went dark for U.S. users and came back online after Trump vowed to stall the ban.

During his first term, Trump tried to ban TikTok on national security grounds, which was halted by the courts before his administration negotiated a sale of the platform that eventually failed to materialize. He changed his position on the popular app during last year’s presidential election and has credited the platform with helping him win more young voters.

The decision to keep TikTok alive through an executive order has received some scrutiny, but it has not faced a legal challenge in court.The CIT is a specialized federal court that typically considers disputes over customs duties and trade restrictions. It has evolved from an 1890 entity called the Board of General Appraisers, and was renamed the Customs Court in 1926.

The CIT typically deals with highly-technical cases that are rarely as high-profile as this case. It handles trade-related disputes from all over the country.Nine judges sit on the court, and most of its cases are handled by just one of those judges. But three judges considered the challenge to Trump’s tariffs, which typically happens when a case involves “the constitutionality of an act of Congress, a Presidential proclamation, or an Executive order, or otherwise has broad and significant implications,” the court says on its

The three judges in this case were Gary Katzman, who was appointed by President Barack Obama; Timothy Reif, who was appointed by Trump; and Jane Restani, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.Its decisions can be appealed to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and then to the Supreme Court. The Trump administration has said it will file an appeal, and the appeals court on Thursday said the duties could remain in place while it considered the case.