> > For example, US produced orange > > juice, packaged in half gallon containers, is sold in Canada, > > as a 3.78 litre container. It could not marketed as a 3.8 litre > > container, because it doesn't contain at least 3.8 litres. > > It could be marketed as a 3.75 or 3.7 litre container > > Why don't the mark it 3.8 L and then FILL IT to 3.8 L ? The cost of 20 > mL more (0.5%) of their product surely must be trivially small compare > to the cost of packaging and marketing.
Because they use the same same containers for the US and Canadian markets, they just put a US or Canadian label on it, depending on where it's going to be sold. So they'd have to fill all the the containers to 3.8 L, not just the Canada bound ones. Stephen
