ABSTRACT
This chapter examines opportunities for such diversification for resource trade overall and indicate those commodities for which diversification of exports is most promising—together with the most likely overseas customers. The foregoing systematic case studies and briefer analyses of resources in US-Canadian relations suggest a number of policy-relevant observations for the future. The possibilities of discovering and developing new US sources of a number of resources that the United States currently imports from Canada are also considerable under suitable circumstances of demand, price, and government policy. Canada needs to secure markets other than the United States for its copper exports, since the United States is apt to remain self-sufficient, or nearly so, in that mineral except during periods of unusually high domestic consumption. South Africa is almost as large an exporter of minerals as is Canada, is a much larger exporter of several minerals in US-Canadian trade and is a major exporter of zinc, copper, lead, and their by-products.
