The Commerce Department announces a victory with regard to EU metric labeling:
The Commerce Department today announced the successful culmination of its efforts to ensure extension of both non-metric and metric labeling provisions on product packaging for U.S. businesses exporting to the European Union—saving U.S. firms hundreds of millions of dollars.
More here from the BBC:
The move to shelve EU plans to enforce metrication by 2009 comes after a long campaign by pro-imperial groups, including the Metric Martyrs.
The European industry commissioner has ruled that imperial weights and measures can be displayed indefinitely alongside metric measurements.
A similar regulatory barrier is left-side drive versus right-side drive countries, with the steering wheel on different sides of the vehicle in each. Along the lines of the duel labeling proposal, I propose a similar solution for the driving issue: From now on, people should be able to drive on either side of the road!
