2001-04-08
A couple of things. Most of those SA economies will be exporting to the US,
not the other way around. Countries in SA proper will not tolerate the US
pushing FFU on them. Their industries are already established in SI. Their
feeling is the US is so rich, let them changeover to their way.
I also have the feeling that the South American countries might push the US
to be more Spanish speaking. Businessmen who go to SA will be required to
speak Spanish, not English. There might be a lot of Americans rushing to
learn Spanish.
But, I'm sure many small US industries will try to push FFU on SA. Let's
just hope SA leans to say no.
John
Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrt�mlich glaubt
frei zu sein.
There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they
are free!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
----- Original Message -----
From: "M R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, 2001-04-08 12:16
Subject: [USMA:12088] Pan-American free trade zone
> While Europe expands eastward, Pan-American free trade
> zone is evolving in North and South America with a
> group of 34 nations.
>
> This means that the goods should include Portuguese
> along with the existing English, French and Spanish.
>
> Luckily this will push the need for US to go metric,
> but the wombat lovers will try to push non-si down the
> throat of all the North and South Americans.
>
> Its time for us to ensure that metric overtakes wombat
> before the agreement comes into effect by 2005. For
> this, it is not enough, if the EU alone supports the
> metric, they should include ASEAN, Japan, China in
> their group to push US to metric.
>
>
http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3EP81RALC&liv
e=true&tagid=IXLYK5HZ8CC
>
> Madan
>
>
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