If the executives of the U.S. silicon-chip industry lobby Congress for protection from imports on the grounds that foreign producers are selling silicon chips in the United States below production costs, they are using the:
A) environmental standards argument.
B) retaliation against dumping argument.
C) cheap foreign labor argument.
D) national security argument.
Ans: B) retaliation against dumping argument.
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