The imposition of quotas limiting imported steelwill not help the big American steel mills. In fact, the quotas will help "mini-mills" flourish in theUnited States. Those small domesticmills will take more business from the big American steel mills than would havebeen taken by the foreign steel mills in the absence of quotas.
Which of the following, if true, would cast themost serious doubt on the claim made in the last sentence above?
(A) Quality rather than price is a major factor indetermining the type of steel to be used for a particular application.
(B) Foreign steel mills have long produced gradesof steel comparable in quality to the steel produced by the big American mills.
(C) American quotas on imported goods have ofteninduced other countries to impose similar quotas on American goods.
(D) Domestic "mini-mills" consistentlyproduce better grades of steel than do the big American mills.
(E) Domestic "mini-mills" producelow-volume, specialized types of steel that are not produced by the bigAmerican steel mills.
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