Kernland imposes a high tariff on the export of unprocessed cashew nuts in order to ensure that the nuts are sold to domestic processing plants. If the tariff were lifted and unprocessed cashews were sold at world market prices, more farmers could profit by growing cashews. However, since all the processing plants are in urban areas, removing the tariff would seriously hamper the government's effort to reduce urban unemployment over the next five years.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
Kernland imposes a high tariff on the export of unprocessed cashew nuts in order to ensure that the nuts are sold to domestic processing plants. If the tariff were lifted and unprocessed cashew were sold at world market prices, more farmers could profit by growing cashews. However, since all the processing plants are in urban areas, removing the tariff would seriously hamper the government‘s effort to reduce urban unemployment over the next five years. Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument? A.Some of the by-products of processing cashews are used for manufacturing plants and plastics B.Other countries in which cashews are processed subsidize their processing plants C.More people in kernland are engaged in farming cashews than in processing them D.Buying unprocessed cashews at lower than world market prices enables cashew processors in kernland to sell processed nuts at competitive prices E.A lack of profitable crops is driving an increasing number of small farmers in kernland off their land and into the cities 我不太明白题目最后一句话,因为所有的加工工厂都在城市里,所以去掉关税将会在接下来的五年中抑制政府对降低失业率所做的努力。。加工工厂跟unpocessed cashew有什么关系,出口的不都是未加工的吗??答案选E。。感觉E有点support啊,不也是说增加失业率的吗。