Huawei Sues Trump Administration Over Failure to Release FOIA'd Trade Documents

Huawei is suing the Trump administration for not releasing documents more than a year after the Chinese technology company requested them. In the lawsuit, filed Oct. 30, Huawei said its Freedom of Information Act requests have been met with “a remarkable degree of stonewalling” and relate to the U.S. investigation into Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, “trade relations” between the U.S. and China and “competition over the development of 5G technology.” Huawei named a range of U.S. agencies in the complaint, including the Bureau of Industry and Security and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.

The company said the administration’s “failure to comply with their FOIA obligations is particularly troubling given the U.S. government’s open commitment to ‘combat[ing] Huawei’s dominance’ in the market for 5G technology and its repeated singling out of Plaintiffs for adverse treatment.” The White House did not comment.