Defense Department analysts worry that the ability of the United States to wage a prolonged war would be seriously endangered if the machine-tool manufacturing base shrinks furthur. Before the Defense Department publicly connected this security issue with the import quota issue, however, the machine-tool industry raised the national security issue in its petition for import quotas.
Which of the following, if true, contributes most to an explanation of the machine-tool industry's raising the issue above regarding national security?
(A) When the aircraft industries retooled, they provided a large amount of work for tool builders. (B) The Defense Department is only marginally concered with the effects of foreign competition on the machine-tool industry. (C) The machine-tool industry encountered difficulty in obtaining govermental protection against imports on grounds other than defense. (D) A few weapons important for defense consist of parts that do not require extensive machining. (E) Several federal goverment programs have been designed which will enable domestic machine-tool manufacturing firms to compete successfully with foreign toolmakers.
关键是怎么理解这句话：raise the national security issue in its petition for import quotas.
反正我当时是没读懂，现在也没完全明白。
This sentence means that the industry uses the national security issue in its petition as a reason to ask for constraining import quotas. Because the less import quota is, the better the industry will be.
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