The pharmaceutical industry depends on highly trained workers, who are abundantly available in India. The automobile industry depends on the availability of a large stock of physical capital with which the United States is well endowed. According to Heckscher-Ohlin theorem

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According to the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem, a country will export goods that use its abundant factors intensively and import goods that use its scarce factors intensively. Since India has an abundance of highly trained workers, it should export pharmaceuticals and import automobiles, which require physical capital that the U.S. has in abundance.

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