why does Canada export so much oil to the US but also still import some oil from us?

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Wouldn’t it make most economic sense to just sell to our own countries in that case if there’s some standardized barrel price?

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It’s all in the difference between sweet light crude and sour crude, and the respective refining capacity of each nation.

The US strategically refines sour crude, but produces sweet light.

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