when crabe stronger.strong, with new nicorette coated ice mint. layered with flavor. it s the first and only coated nicotine lozenge. for an amazing taste. .that outlasts your craving. new nicorette ice mint. brett: fedex is suing the trump administration over what it says is an impossible burden directive that no longer ship materials from certain sources. let s get details now from fedex ceo fred smith he join us from memphis. we contacted the department of commerce today, brett. told them that the increasing use of restrictions on exports
and imports by the commerce department in various geopolitical and trade disputes creates just an impossible burden on fedex and common carriers because under the department of commerce s regulations, we are expected to be policeman for these export and import controls and there are about 1100 entities now on this list and five were just added last friday. we re required under the regulations of the department to certify that the shipper who may or may not be telling the truth, is in compliance with those export regulations. despite the fact that we handle 15 million shipments a day if we make an error without a trial or due process, we can be fined $250,000 per piece.
we don t think that these regulations are based in law and we hope the commerce department will come up with a solution that eliminates our requirement to be the policeman of these shipments and other u.s. common carriers as well. brett: this comes as china foreign ministry is asking for full explanation on huawei shipment. huawei is one of those companies on that list you re talking about. well, huawei is just emblematic of this problem. the huawei incident concern two packages, two out of 15 million where a 30-year employee, great fedex team member made an error and diverted two packages for compliance audit. we found out about it. we returned them to the customer and we apologized. there was third one in the u.k.