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AFT Resolution

METRIC SYSTEM

WHEREAS, 90 percent of the world's people live under the metric system and 80 nations use the system or are adopting it; and

WHEREAS, the cost of conversion of U.S. industry to the metric system would be recouped in sales to foreign countries now reluctant to buy U.S. goods measured in non-metric fashion; and

WHEREAS, further delaying the adoption of the metric system will only increase the cost of conversion:

RESOLVED, that this Convention call upon Congress to enact legislation for the gradual conversion of officially recognized weights and measures to the metric system.

(1967)

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