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Re: Source is 1000 CR doc. The Commerce Department recently put [#permalink]
shinewine wrote:
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Clearly (D) here. If the cheaper foreign stockpiled inventories remain, then it will take some time before the domestic tool sales increase.

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Can you tell me , why A) is incorrect..



D for me as well.

While the successful passage of the act may affect the machine tool industry, there's no certainty around it. D attacks the argument more closely. Besides it offers no insights into HOW will the investments be discouraged? Would the discouragement actually work .. because of these reasons the choice is only partially weakening the argument.

I am not 100% sure but I believe more than one choice in CR could be correct. You need to pick up the one that's the MOST relevant.

MATT could you offer some more insights or correct me if I am wrong. Would appreciate it...
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Re: Source is 1000 CR doc. The Commerce Department recently put [#permalink]
A is wrong because its says "would discourage investment in capital equipment" means it might or its possible in future but we cannot be certain about it.

D provides a more concrete reason that since US already has stockpiles of foreign tools the its will not be affected by the newly imposed limit.

Hence D
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A is wrong because it is more probabilistic than D...

D is convincing...since the inventories are already available it defeats the purpose...and hence the prediction.
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D for me too.

Apart for reasons given above, A is thinking too far.
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Re: Source is 1000 CR doc. The Commerce Department recently put [#permalink]
dwivedys wrote:
shinewine wrote:
GMATT73 wrote:
Clearly (D) here. If the cheaper foreign stockpiled inventories remain, then it will take some time before the domestic tool sales increase.

2:22


Can you tell me , why A) is incorrect..



D for me as well.

While the successful passage of the act may affect the machine tool industry, there's no certainty around it. D attacks the argument more closely. Besides it offers no insights into HOW will the investments be discouraged? Would the discouragement actually work .. because of these reasons the choice is only partially weakening the argument.

I am not 100% sure but I believe more than one choice in CR could be correct. You need to pick up the one that's the MOST relevant.

MATT could you offer some more insights or correct me if I am wrong. Would appreciate it...


Additionally, investment startegies in research (A) is out of scope/off topic. Not relevant to current or near future sales volume of tools.



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