A Metric America
- In 1971, the National Bureau of Standards recommended that the United States start the transition to the metric system, to complete it in ten years. This was later again tangled in opposing laws, with the conversion made voluntary, and the deadline stripped out.
- As the world moved towards globalization, American manufacturers and exporters had to adjust to the global measuring units out of necessity.
- The Metric Conversion Act was passed in 1988, making it the preferred way of measurement.
- The Pharma industry fully adopted the metric move, while other sectors did it partially, making the adoption stand at about 30 percent.
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