Lawn Company and Mowers Inc. make yard tools. Both companies use only steel produced in the United States. Lawn's ad claims, "We use only U.S. steel, while our competitor uses inferior foreign steel!" For purposes of the application of advertising standards under the Federal Trade Commission Act, this statement is most likely

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The statement is a false claim about a competitor's product because it inaccurately asserts that Mowers Inc. uses inferior foreign steel, while both companies actually use U.S. steel.