The Leontief paradox can be summarized as the finding that U.S.exports tend to come from capital-intensive industries,while U.S.imports are produced using relatively labor-intensive techniques.

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The Leontief Paradox actually found the opposite: U.S. exports were less capital-intensive than expected, and U.S. imports were more capital-intensive, contradicting the Heckscher-Ohlin theory which predicted that a country would export goods that intensively use its abundant factor of production.

The Leontief Paradox Can Be Summarized as the Finding That