Steve,
Steve, clear and concise labelling is an essential in trade. The regulations are there to ensure that the supplier is not "pulling a fast one" by mis-representing information about his product or describing it in terms that have no legal meaning. As an example, look at the table here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bushel_Table_of_States.jpg. You will see how the bushel varied across the United States, not only by commodity, but also by location. Firm regulations are required to create a "level playing field". Moreover, if the commodities in question are to be marketed on a world-wide basis, the regulations should apply world-wide without domestic regulations which serve no purpose other than to protect local products. One such domestic regulation was that electricty was supplied 240 V within the UK but at 230 V across many other countries. The result was that products designed for 230 V might well be damaged if used in the UK, but British products would work perfectly well at 230 V abroad. From: USMA [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Humphreys Sent: 22 January 2017 15:57 To: Ezra Steinberg Cc: [email protected] Subject: [USMA 458] Re: Metric-only labeling on packages I would expect less red tape and more flexibility On 22 Jan 2017, at 1:16 am, Ezra Steinberg <[email protected]> wrote: I just read a posting on the UKMA web site regarding the possible impact of proposed trade deals (or their possible demise) on metric-only labeling of packages both in the EU and the USA: http://metricviews.org.uk/2017/01/is-the-proposed-eu-us-trade-agreement-doom ed/ Unfortunately, amending the FPLA to allow metric-only labeling seems unlikely for the time being. However, last I heard there was only one entity (state of New York) that had not adopted the 1999 update to the language of the UPLR to allow metric-only labeling. Does anyone know if there is any effort on-going right now to get New York to adopt this change? If that happens, will all goods subject to the UPLR then be allowed to have metric-only labeling anywhere they are sold in the USA and all of its possessions and territories? Regards, Ezra _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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