U.S., June 25 -- American multinational courier delivery services company, FedEx Corporation (FedEx), on Monday filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Commerce over a request that the FedEx enforce restrictions on Chinese telecom equipment provider Huawei.

In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, FedEx claimed that department's latest measures to restrict the business activities of U.S. companies with Huawei "place an unreasonable burden on FedEx to police the millions of shipments that transit our network every day."

"FedEx is a transportation company, not a law enforcement agency," FedEx said in a statement.

The department in May added Huawei and its affiliates to an "entity list," a move t...