GMAT Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: One feature of the global food economy is the simultaneous

A) Establishing international ties through trade facilitates access to other desired goods that are more efficiently produced abroad.

The argument clearly talks about the lobal food economy and redundant trade,The answer choice provided convincing reason for doing redundant trade by mainitaing trade relation and to acqurie goods that are made more efficiently abroud through the trade relations.

b) Undertaking free trade with one’s political allies helps to maintain international goodwill.
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