FedEx Corp. , after botching some deliveries for Huawei Technologies Co., filed a lawsuit Monday to stop the U.S. government from requiring the package giant to enforce a crackdown on the Chinese telecommunications-gear maker.
The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Washington, D.C., claims the U.S. Commerce Department’s latest restrictions are essentially forcing FedEx FDX, -2.69% to police millions of packages it ships daily to ensure prohibited items aren’t being exported to Huawei. It is a task, FedEx claims, that is legally and logistically impossible.
“FedEx is a transportation company, not a law-enforcement agency,” the company said in a statement.
A spokesman for the Commerce Department said it hadn’t yet reviewed FedEx’s complaint but the agency intended to defend its role in U.S. national security.
An expanded version of this report appears on WSJ.com.
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