WASHINGTON—The Commerce Department said Thursday it wouldn’t enforce its order that would have effectively forced the Chinese-owned TikTok video-sharing app to shut down, in the latest sign of trouble for the Trump administration’s efforts to turn it into a U.S. company.
The department’s action delayed implementation of an order, set to take effect Thursday, that would have barred U.S. companies such as Apple Inc. from offering TikTok in its app store, and companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc. from offering web-hosting…