Tom,

However, am I recollecting correctly that after 2009 supplementary Imperial 
units will indeed be "banned" in the UK?

Ezra

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Wade VMS Systems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sep 26, 2005 6:51 AM
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:34654] RE: Canada: three observations


>This shows what happens if you don't legislate to require metric only. They 
>do it to make it look cheaper, that's why the price/lb is so large compared 
>with price/kg

You don't need to require metric only.  For example, The EU requirement is that
the metric units are *required* and the imperial one optional.  Where the
imperial ones are included they must not be of a bigger sized lettering
than the metric one.

This will probably be easier to enforce, and you don't actually have
to 'ban' anything.

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