Table 2.2 presents comparable struc

Table 2.2 presents comparable structural infonnation for Canada, and close
inspection reveals interesting contrasts with its main trading partner. Canada's economy is more concentrated in primary (8 percent) and manufacturing (38 percent) than the United States, with significantly greater relative shares for mining, paper, and transport equipment and less concentration on service sector activities. The value-added distribution also reflects this but is again skewed
toward services. Canadian demand exhibits similar compositional differences,
and exports are even more primary and manufacturing dependent than demand.
Canada is more than twice as export dependent (13 percent) as the United
States, nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of its exports are in manufacturing,
and it has less than half the service export concentration (13 percent) of the
United States.
The ratio of labor to capital value added in Canada varies significantly from
comparable sectors in the United States. In many cases (for example, mining, petroleum, and construction), this may be due to differing products or technologies, but the differences here are generally greater than one might reasonably expect from these sources alone. Broad sectoral and economywide averages are more similar, but labor still receives substantially more in Canadian
primary and manufacturing sectors and less in services.