2002-05-11 Don't count on it! Unless a customer specifically demands a particular product be metric, you can bet that whatever the US produces and exports is strictly FFU.
Now, if you look at the size of the US and compare them in the value of populations, resources, size, etc., you will see that most of the countries don't even come close. China may be the closest. Canada is bigger in size and resources, but has a population 10 times smaller. If you really want to make an apples for apples and oranges for oranges comparison, you should compare the value of the exports of the EU as a whole. You can't just add of the total exports of each EU country as you don't know how much of that is exported to another EU country. What the chart also doesn't tell you is what those exports consist of. What if the US exports consist mostly soft goods, like music, videos, computer programs, or unprocessed raw materials, or even food products, like grains that are sold in bulk, in tonnes? Things that are not pre-packaged or where a weight appears on the package. This chart is useless to us as it doesn't give us a better picture of how much of that trade is measurement sensitive. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "M R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2002-05-11 13:35 Subject: [USMA:20002] American Strength > http://www.economist.com/markets/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1124023 > > USA is still the World's # 1 exporter. > Nearly US$ 700 billion worth of goods were exported. > I hope most of them have only Metric units. > > Madan > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience > http://launch.yahoo.com >
