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 __
The statement 'the amount of Mexican goods shipped to the United States remained the same as it had been before the tariff reductions' most logically completes the politician's argument.