On Tue, 29 May 2001, Jim Elwell wrote:
>
> ... if, ten years ago ...Congress had passed a law mandating metric-only
> products ... it would have destroyed the value of several injection
> molds worth over $200,000...
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How is that, Jim?
Do you advertise and sell injection molds to the public at large?
Is it impossible to *label and describe* your products made by the molds
in SI for sale privately (?) or publically(?), because of their unique
dimensions and physical properties?
Do you sell your products only to other corporations, but never to
members of the general public at large?
Do you believe that "mandatory metrication" would require that all
negotiated contracts between individuals or private corporations, with
no sales offered to the public, would have to be in metric units?
I ask these questions because I believe that a clear distinction between
private and public transactions is not being made in this discussion of
"mandated metrication" which, to me, means *only* transactions in which
there is a compelling public (governmental regulatory) interest.
Gene.
