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15 U.S.C. § 205a — Congressional statement of findings
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The Congress finds as follows:
(1) The United States was an original signatory party to the 1875 Treaty of the Meter (20 Stat. 709), which established the General Conference of Weights and Measures, the International Committee of Weights and Measures and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.
(2) Although the use of metric measurement standards in the United States has been authorized by law since 1866 (Act of July 28, 1866; 14 Stat. 339), this Nation today is the only industrially developed nation which has not established a national policy of committing itself and taking steps to facilitate conversion to the metric system.
(3) World trade is increasingly geared towards the metric system of measurement.
(4) Industry in the United States is often at a competitive disadvantage when dealing in international markets because of its nonstandard measurement system, and is sometimes excluded when it is unable to deliver goods which are measured in metric terms.
(5) The inherent simplicity of the metric system of measurement and standardization of weights and measures has led to major cost savings in certain industries which have converted to that system.
(6) The Federal Government has a responsibility to develop procedures and techniques to assist industry, especially small business, as it voluntarily converts to the metric system of measurement.
(7) The metric system of measurement can provide substantial advantages to the Federal Government in its own operations.
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The Congress finds as follows:
(1) The United States was an original signatory party to the 1875 Treaty of the Meter (20 Stat. 709), which established the General Conference of Weights and Measures, the International Committee of Weights and Measures and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.
(2) Although the use of metric measurement standards in the United States has been authorized by law since 1866 (Act of July 28, 1866; 14 Stat. 339), this Nation today is the only industrially developed nation which has not established a national policy of committing itself and taking steps to facilitate conversion to the metric system.
(3) World trade is increasingly geared towards the metric system of measurement.
(4) Industry in the United States is often at a competitive disadvantage when dealing in international markets because of its nonstandard measurement system, and is sometimes excluded when it is unable to deliver goods which are measured in metric terms.
(5) The inherent simplicity of the metric system of measurement and standardization of weights and measures has led to major cost savings in certain industries which have converted to that system.
(6) The Federal Government has a responsibility to develop procedures and techniques to assist industry, especially small business, as it voluntarily converts to the metric system of measurement.
(7) The metric system of measurement can provide substantial advantages to the Federal Government in its own operations.
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As used in this subchapter, the term—
(1) “Board” means the United States Metric Board, established under [section 205d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section205d&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) “engineering standard” means a standard which prescribes (A) a concise set of conditions and requirements that must be satisfied by a material, product, process, procedure, convention, or test method; and (B) the physical, functional, performance and/or conformance characteristics thereof;
(3) “international standard or recommendation” means an engineering standard or recommendation which is (A) formulated and promulgated by an international organization and (B) recommended for adoption by individual nations as a national standard;
(4) “metric system of measurement” means the International System of Units as established by the General Conference of Weights and Measures in 1960 and as interpreted or modified for the United States by the Secretary of Commerce;
(5) “full and open competition” has the same meaning as defined in [section 107 of title 41](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title41-section107&num=0&edition=prelim);
(6) “total installed price” means the price of purchasing a product or material, trimming or otherwise altering some or all of that product or material, if necessary to fit with other building components, and then installing that product or material into a Federal facility;
(7) “hard-metric” means measurement, design, and manufacture using the metric system of measurement, but does not include measurement, design, and manufacture using English system measurement units which are subsequently reexpressed in the metric system of measurement;
(8) “cost or pricing data or price anal
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Financial and administrative services, including those related to budgeting, accounting, financial reporting, personnel, and procurement, and such other staff services as may be needed by the Board, may be obtained by the Board from the Secretary of Commerce or other appropriate sources in the Federal Government. Payment for such services shall be made by the Board, in advance or by reimbursement, from funds of the Board in such amounts as may be agreed upon by the Chairman of the Board and by the source of the services being rendered.
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It shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system; and no contract or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be deemed invalid or liable to objection because the weights or measures expressed or referred to therein are weights or measures of the metric system.
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It is therefore the declared policy of the United States—
(1) to designate the metric system of measurement as the preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce;
(2) to require that each Federal agency, by a date certain and to the extent economically feasible by the end of the fiscal year 1992, use the metric system of measurement in its procurements, grants, and other business-related activities, except to the extent that such use is impractical or is likely to cause significant inefficiencies or loss of markets to United States firms, such as when foreign competitors are producing competing products in non-metric units;
(3) to seek out ways to increase understanding of the metric system of measurement through educational information and guidance and in Government publications; and
(4) to permit the continued use of traditional systems of weights and measures in non-business activities.
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The Commission is exempt from the provisions of the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 ([15 U.S.C. 205a](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section205a&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).
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TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§ 204
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Act Feb. 14, 1903, transferred National Bureau of
Standards from Treasury Department to Department of
Commerce and Labor.
§ 204. Metric system authorized
It shall be lawful throughout the United
States of America to employ the weights and
measures of the metric system; and no contract
or dealing, or pleading in any court, shall be
deemed invalid or liable to objection because
the weights or measures expressed or referred to
therein are weights or measures of the metric
system.
(R.S. § 3569.)
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
R.S. § 3569 derived from act July 28, 1866, ch. 301, § 1,
14 Stat. 339.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
STUDY OF METRIC SYSTEM BY THE SECRETARY OF
COMMERCE
Pub. L. 90–472, Aug. 9, 1968, 82 Stat. 693, authorized
the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a program of in-
vestigation, research, and survey to determine the im-
pact of increasing worldwide use of the metric system
on the United States; to appraise the desirability and
practicability of increasing the use of metric weights
and measures in the United States; to study the feasi-
bility of retaining and promoting by international use
of dimensional and other engineering standards based
on the customary measurement units of the United
States; and to evaluate the costs and benefits of alter-
native courses of action which might be feasible for the
United States. The Secretary was directed to submit to
the Congress such interim reports as he deemed desir-
able, and within three years after Aug. 9, 1968, a full
and complete report of the findings made under the
study, together with such recommendations as he con-
sidered to be appropriate and in the best interests of
the United States. By its own terms
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