TikTok投资者将向特朗普政府支付100亿美元费用
【中美创新时报2026年3月14日编译讯】（记者温友平编译）参与创建美国控制的TikTok的交易的投资者将向美国财政部支付100亿美元，这是特朗普政府以不同寻常的方式将联邦政府介入企业交易的最新例证。《纽约时报》记者劳伦·赫希和安德鲁·杜伦对此作了下述报道。
据两位了解此事但未获授权公开谈论此交易的人士透露，美国政府正在考虑将这笔费用作为其在促成这笔交易中所扮演角色的交易费，这笔费用将由TikTok美国的新投资者支付。
据知情人士透露，新投资者在1月份交易完成时已向美国财政部支付了约25亿美元的费用。他们计划分期支付剩余的费用。这些投资者包括软件巨头甲骨文公司、阿联酋投资公司MGX以及另一家投资公司银湖资本，它们各自持有该公司约15%的股份。
今年 1 月，TikTok 与投资者达成协议，以解决多年来围绕这款由中国互联网公司字节跳动拥有的视频应用的法律不确定性。此前，两党都担心其所有权可能构成国家安全威胁。
从一开始，白宫就在这笔交易中扮演了积极且非传统的角色。去年，特朗普总统任命副总统约翰·万斯负责牵头这项交易。9月，特朗普表示，美国将因促成这笔交易而获得“巨额报酬”。他说：“我称之为促成交易的额外报酬。”
《华尔街日报》此前报道称，交易费用定为 100 亿美元。
万斯先生的发言人拒绝置评。财政部也未回应置评请求。
拜登政府时期白宫技术安全和治理助理主任亚伦·巴特尼克表示，100亿美元的数额可能是前所未有的，而且“数额巨大”。
在第二个任期内，特朗普先生积极参与私营部门的交易。美国政府已持有多家公司的股权，其中包括英特尔10%的股份。作为去年美国钢铁公司出售给日本钢铁公司一事中消除国家安全担忧的协议的一部分，特朗普政府要求获得所谓的“黄金股”。
万斯先生曾表示，这笔交易对TikTok的估值将达到140亿美元。这意味着交易费约占该公司价值的70%。
作为交易的一部分，字节跳动将其美国分拆成另一家公司，并引入了新的投资者，这使得字节跳动的持股比例降至略低于 20%。
其他新投资者包括戴尔科技公司背后的科技亿万富翁迈克尔·戴尔的个人投资实体，以及全球贸易公司 Susquehanna 的一家关联公司。
一些新投资者与特朗普政府关系密切。甲骨文公司联合创始人拉里·埃里森与特朗普关系友好，并支持其子、派拉蒙影业首席执行官大卫·埃里森收购华纳兄弟探索频道。MGX曾与特朗普家族的加密货币公司World Liberty Financial有过业务往来。
Oracle、MGX 和 Silver Lake 的发言人要么拒绝置评，要么没有回应置评请求。
David McCabe和Theodore Schleifer对报道亦有贡献。
题图：华盛顿财政部大楼的正面景观。图源《纽约时报》埃里克·李为
附原英文报道：
TikTok Investors Set to Pay $10 Billion Fee to Trump Administration
The large fee is the latest example of the White House’s inserting itself into corporate deal making in unusual and aggressive ways.
A view of the facade of the Treasury building in Washington.
The new investors paid the Treasury roughly $2.5 billion of the fee when the deal closed in January.Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times
Lauren HirschAndrew Duehren
By Lauren Hirsch and Andrew Duehren
March 13, 2026
Investors in a deal to create a U.S.-controlled TikTok are set to pay $10 billion to the U.S. Treasury, the latest example of the Trump administration’s inserting the federal government into corporate deal making in unusual ways.
The fee, which the U.S. government is considering a transaction fee for its role in helping bring about the deal, will be paid by new investors in the U.S. TikTok, according to two people briefed on the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly about the transaction.
The new investors paid the Treasury roughly $2.5 billion of the fee when the deal closed in January. They plan to pay the rest of the fee in an additional set of payments, one of the people said. The investors include the software giant Oracle; MGX, an Emirati investment firm; and Silver Lake, another investment firm, which each own about 15 percent of the company.
TikTok struck a deal with the investors in January to address years of legal uncertainty about the video app, owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance, after bipartisan concern that its ownership could pose a national security threat.
The White House has played an active and untraditional role in the deal from the outset. President Trump appointed Vice President JD Vance to lead the transaction last year. In September, Mr. Trump said the U.S. would receive a “tremendous fee” for putting the deal together. “I call it a fee plus for just making the deal,” he said.
The Wall Street Journal earlier reported that the transaction fee was set to be $10 billion.
A spokesperson for Mr. Vance declined to comment. The Treasury did not respond to requests for comment.
Aaron Bartnick, a former White House assistant director for technology security and governance under the Biden administration, said the $10 billion might be unprecedented and was “outrageously large.”
During his second term, Mr. Trump has aggressively involved himself in private-sector deal making. The government has taken equity stakes in several companies, including a 10 percent stake in Intel. As part of a deal to clear national security concerns surrounding the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel last year, the administration demanded what it called a “Golden Share.”
Mr. Vance has said the deal will value TikTok at $14 billion. That would mean the transaction fee is about 70 percent of the company’s worth.
As part of the deal, ByteDance separated its U.S. arm into another company and brought in new investors, which reduced ByteDance’s ownership stake to just under 20 percent.
Additional new investors include the personal investment entity for Michael Dell, the tech billionaire behind Dell Technologies, and an affiliate of the global trading firm Susquehanna.
Some of the new investors have ties to the administration. Larry Ellison, a co-founder of Oracle, is friendly with Mr. Trump and is backing the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by his son, David Ellison, the chief executive of Paramount. MGX has done business with the Trump family’s cryptocurrency firm, World Liberty Financial.
Spokespeople for Oracle, MGX and Silver Lake either declined to comment or did not respond to a request for comment.
David McCabe and Theodore Schleifer contributed reporting.
