To the extent that I have the time and diligence, I plan to monitor WTO-TBT and US Federal Register postings to thwart acceptance of OSI units (units of measurement Outside the SI) and to submit written comments in support of SI.
Can you join me in searching for Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) which are in the form of deviations from SI? For example, what do the trade deals negotiated by President Obama have to say with respect to *requirements for SI* in designs and labeiing of products? Gene. Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:55:56 -0400 >From: "Kilopascal" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [USMA:50127] Fwd: National Institute of Standards and Technology >(NIST) TBT Notifications for Americas Update >To: <[email protected]>, "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > That may be so but as long as the WTO is still in > business to back US interests, anything like this is > suspect. You have to be careful of walking into a > trap and make sure that what you are supporting is > truly designed to bring more metric to the US and > not another scheme to do to the world what was done > to the EU. > > If what you say is true and the WTO is changing its > regulations in favour of SI it may be that American > influence in the organization is waning and the rest > of the world is filling the vacuum. But that > doesn't mean we should let our guard down or assume > the NIST or others won't make a last attempt to > force the world to accept non-SI. > > We want to assure that any advice that the NIST may > give to those that complain about the metric issue > is that they will tell the complainer to metricate > and not tell the complainer they will force a > foreign nation to accept no-SI. > > Be vigilent! > ...
