Metric Conversion Act

The Metric Conversion Act is an Act of the U.S. Congress that was set with the signature of U.S. President Gerald Ford on 23 December 1975 in force.

However, the further use was the intention of the legislature the metric system "the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce " to be ( the preferred system of weights and measures in trade and economy of the United States). Expressly permitted by customary in the states of weights and measures units in non-business area. Large export-oriented companies such as General Motors, Ford, IBM and Caterpillar were indeed among the first who went over to the metric system, but most businesses and citizens acted to modernize against reserved.

The law created the " United States Metric Board". In him both representatives from science, technology and education facilities as well as from state and local governments came. Its role should be to plan and coordinate activities to educationally get used to the Americans to the metric system. The panel consisted briefly from 1978 to 30 September 1982. U.S. President Ronald Reagan unleashed saving reasons in the household on the institution. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is now tasked to pursue the tasks assigned to the committee.