The U.S. government has threatened to increase tariffs on European luxury automobiles because of a trade imbalance between the United States and the European Union For American automakers like GM and Ford, this action would reflect

Multiple Choice

A. a reactive strategy that would harm the technological environmental force

B. a proactive maneuver to manipulate the social environmental force

C. a positive result from regulatory environmental forces

D. a positive response to a technological environmental force

E. a negative impact as a result of adverse competitive regulatory, and technological environmental forces