John Kilopascal wrote in USMA 18976: >The EU is not the only market for American goods. Much of South American >and Asia also purchase American products and the products are not modified >to metric conformity. They may contain metric contents declarations on the >labels, but the numbers are not rational metric. The product is not >modified to be rational metric. Only a few major multi-national American >companies have embraced metric. The millions of Ma and Pa shops have not >and only do the minimal in metric when selling a product outside the US. >They do not make two versions of a product. One for domestic and one for >export.
The units used in designing a product is genrally not of concern to the user. Many American don't realize that their American car is entirely metric. If an American company has plants around the world it will probably design its products using metric units because it is easier to convert their American plants to metric than to convert their foreign workers to work with inches and pounds. That is in addition to the advantage of working with metric units after the conversion of their operations to metric is completed. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071
