What is the major difference between mercantilism absolute advantage and comparative advantage?

Mercantilism focuses on accumulating wealth through trade surpluses and government intervention, emphasizing the importance of exports over imports to increase a nation's gold and silver reserves. Absolute advantage, proposed by Adam Smith, refers to a country's ability to produce a good more efficiently than Another Country, while comparative advantage, introduced by David Ricardo, highlights that countries should specialize in producing goods where they have a lower opportunity cost, even if one country has an absolute advantage in all goods. Thus, while mercantilism stresses national wealth and trade balance, absolute and comparative advantages emphasize production efficiency and specialization for mutual benefit in trade.