Sentence Correction

One of Ronald Reagan’s first acts as President was to rescind President Carter’s directive that any chemical banned on medical grounds in the United States be prohibited from sale to other countries.

(A) that any chemical banned on medical grounds in the United States be prohibited from sale to other countries
(B) that any chemical be prohibited from sale to other countries that was banned on medical grounds in the United States
(C) prohibiting the sale to other countries of any chemical banned on medical grounds in the United States
(D) prohibiting that any chemical banned on medical grounds in the United States is sold to other countries
(E) that any chemical banned in the United States on medical grounds is prohibited from being sold to other countries


Correct answer: C.
I choose A. WHY wrong？C is concise?

Somehow order & directive are never followed by that....this eliminates A,B & E...

prohibiting that is unidiomatic in D

We are left with C...which is surely nt the best of answers

I say somehow above because I too don't knw the reason why it is so....