题目选项分析

Which of the following, if true, most logically completes the politician's argument?

United States politician: Although the amount of United States goods shipped to Mexico doubled in the year after tariffs on trade between the two countries were reduced, it does not follow that the reduction in tariffs caused the sales of United States goods to companies and consumers in Mexico to double that year, because ___

【选项】many of the United States companies that produced goods that year had competitors based in Mexico that had long produced the same kind of goods