The US Government Has Threatened to Increase Tariffs on European Luxury

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

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.