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"He's playing the good cop," William Alan Reinsch, the former head of the National Foreign Trade Council, told the BBC.

The former director of the White House National Trade Council reported to federal prison after Chief Justice John G. Roberts denied Navarro’s first attempt to avoid incarceration.

The National Foreign Trade Council, whose members include major shippers such as FedEx, UPS and DHL as well as online retailers like Amazon and eBay, argue that restricting its use would make purchases more expensive for American consumers and small businesses.

John Pickel, a senior director at the National Foreign Trade Council, a trade association that represents a broad range of companies, said that doing as the senators are urging would increase the amount of time it takes for shipments to arrive as they go through a more cumbersome inspection process at the border.

The competitive challenges felt by the textile industry aren’t caused by the provision, according to John Pickel, a senior director of international supply chain policy at the National Foreign Trade Council, a lobbying group that supports de minimis.