Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Trade official: Country X deserves economic retribution for its protec

Trade official: Country X deserves economic retribution for its protectionism. However, it is crucial that we recognize that there are overriding considerations in this case. We should still sell to X the agricultural equipment it ordered: there is high demand in our country for agricultural imports from X.

The argument depends on assuming which one of the following principles?

(A) Agricultural components of international trade are more importantthan nonagricultural commodities - WRONG. A comparison is not needed. Irrelevant.
(B) The ability to keep popular products available domestically is less importantthan our being able to enter international market - WRONG. Like A only.
(C) We should neverjeopardize the interests of our people to punish a protectionist country - WRONG. 2nd best. It, however, goes berserk to make a strong claim.
(D) In mostcases , punishing a protectionist country should havepriority over the interests of our people - WRONG. Loses on the front as red text denotes.
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Statistics : Posted by unraveled • on 16 Oct 2018, 10:37 • Replies 4 • Views 5142

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