Huawei asks US court to declare defense bill "unconstitutional" By Reuters

By Sijia Jiang

HONG KONG (Reuters) – China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd has filed a motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit against the US government, according to a case filed in the United States on telecom equipment manufacturer to fight Washington's sanctions that threaten to take it out of global markets.

The petition filed Tuesday night in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas requests to declare unconstitutional the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), in an update of the lawsuit filed against the law started in March by Chinese society.

The NDAA bill, passed by the US Congress last summer, bans federal agencies and their contractors from using Huawei's equipment for national security reasons, citing the company's ties to the Chinese government .

Huawei has repeatedly denied being controlled by the Chinese government, the military or the intelligence services.

On May 16, the world's largest manufacturer of telecommunication network equipment was subject to even tougher penalties. The US Department of Commerce has placed the group on a blacklist prohibiting companies from dealing with Huawei, which immediately disrupted the global technology sector.

This ban is part of a growing trade dispute between the two largest economies in the world.

Huawei, who is suspended from the 90-day ban, denied that its products pose a security threat and protested Washington's attempts to limit its activities.

Song Liuping, chief legal officer of Huawei, wrote Monday in the Wall Street Journal that the law violated due process guarantees to the extent that it "applies directly and permanently to Huawei without the possibility of rebuttal or evasion ".

"It's the tyranny of the" lawsuit by the legislature "that the US Constitution forbids," Song wrote.