The empirical tendency for U.S. exports to appear to be labor intensive is known as the Leontief Paradox.

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The Leontief Paradox refers to the empirical finding by economist Wassily Leontief that, contrary to the expectations of the Heckscher-Ohlin theory (which predicts that a country will export goods that utilize its abundant factors intensively), the United States (which was relatively abundant in capital) exported labor-intensive goods and imported capital-intensive goods. This was surprising and paradoxical given the U.S.'s capital abundance.

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