Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou’s initial extradition hearing will take place on May 8, a Canadian court ruled on Wednesday.
Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the US government saying that ban on its equipment was unconstitutional.
The lawsuit, filed in US District Court in the Eastern District of Texas, challenges the constitutionality of Section 889 of the 2019 National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA), signed by President Donald Trump in August last year.
The legislation bars all US government agencies and their contractors from buying Huawei equipment and services.
“The US Congress has repeatedly failed to produce any evidence to support its restrictions on Huawei products. We are compelled to take this legal action as a proper and last resort,” Huawei Rotating Chairman Guo Ping said in a news briefing at Huawei’s headquarters in southern China.
“This ban not only is unlawful, but also restricts Huawei from engaging in fair competition, ultimately harming US consumers. We look forward to the court’s verdict,” he added.
No proof of wrongdoing
In its lawsuit, Huawei said its “equipment and services are subject to advanced security procedures, and no backdoors, implants, or other intentional security vulnerabilities have been documented in any of the more than 170 countries in the world where Huawei equipment and services are used.”
The lawsuit also alleges that Congress has violated the “separation of powers” principles of the US Constitution by doing the work of the courts.
Ping asserted that if this law is set aside, Huawei can bring more advanced technologies to the United States and help it build the best 5G networks.
On Wednesday, a Canadian court ruled that Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou’s initial extradition hearing will take place on May 8.
Meng – daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei – is accused by the United States of bank and wire fraud related to breaches of trade sanctions against Iran.
