Note how this model can be used to reconcile the Leontief paradox. Let us assume that the United States is an innovating country that produces many new products. The United States will have comparative advantage in recently invented manufactured goods. Because these goods have yet to become standardized, their production is apt to be quiet labor intensive. Investment in fixed capital is likely to be postponed until it becomes certain what features are most popular with the public and how best to automate the production of the good. Thus, U.S. exports will tend to be labor intensive. And, because standardization involves the adoption of more capital-intensive production techniques, if later the United States loses comparative advantage in a good and begins to import it, this good will tend to be capital intensive.