Critical Reasoning

16. The recently negotiated North American Free Trade Agreement among Canada, Mexico, and the United States is misnamed, because it would not result in truly free trade. Adam Smith, the economist who first articulated the principles of free trade, held that any obstacle placed in the way of the free movement of goods, investment, or labor would defeat free trade. So since under the agreement workers would be restricted by national boundaries from seeking the best conditions they could find, the resulting obstruction of the flow of trade would, from a free-trade perspective, be harmful.
The argument proceeds by
(A) ruling out alternatives
(B) using a term in two different senses
(C) citing a nonrepresentative instance
(D) appealing to a relevant authority
(E) responding to a different issue from the one posed


OA is d.

The question asks you to define how the argument proceeds.

The argument proceeds with the sentence -
"Adam Smith, the economist who first articulated the principles of free trade, held that any obstacle placed in the way of the free movement of goods, investment, or labor would defeat free trade."

In the above sentence, the author appeals to a relevant authority (Adam Smith).

Hence, the answer is D.

This does not seem like a typical GMAT question, is it?

@Vaivish, These questions are from 1000 CR ?

its from Kaplan full length test.........

Option D looks good than other answers