The US Commerce Department vows to "vigorously defend" an executive order that seeks to bar transactions with Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok. (Photo: AFP/ VNA)

US District Judge Wendy Beetlestone on Friday blocked the Commerce Department order set to take effect on November 12 that would have effectively barred ByteDance-owned TikTok from operating in the United States.

Beetlestone enjoined the agency from barring data hosting within the United States for TikTok, content delivery services and other technical transactions.

On September 27, US District Judge Carl Nichols issued a preliminary injunction in a suit brought by ByteDance that stopped the Commerce Department from ordering Apple and Google app stores to remove TikTok for new users. That order had been set to take effect later that day.

Nichols is set to hold a hearing on Wednesday on the other aspects of the Commerce Department order that Beetlestone blocked on Friday.