• MushuChupacabra@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 days ago

    I think you’re confused about what I’m getting at. This would be more of a “You know what? Since you’re unilaterally crashing the global economy and betraying all of your allies, and the gloves are off, we’re sick of your shit.” Point of view.

    As in keep your “that’s what we’ve always used” to yourselves, and forget attempting to export anything that conforms to something other than metric. As in, adding cost to production to appease the strict anti-SAE, anti Imperial everything market. Sorry, can’t import that; Fahrenheit has been referenced.

    Everything. Every commodity, ingredient, finished good. If it has anything other than SI attached to it, the rest of the world shuns it.

    The purpose would be to make it very irritating for American companies to bend to the rest of the world’s standard, simply because you’re being complete Dickheads on the global stage.

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      5 days ago

      The purpose would be to make it very irritating for American companies to bend to the rest of the world’s standard,

      OP, I think you’re Canadian, so it might be a bit of an exception but in most countries that use metric, American companies already sell products that only use metric unit. This would literally change nothing.

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        5 days ago

        You understand nothing.

        I’m talking about trade using the ISO standard exclusively, and being punitive to any entity from the US that merely uses SAE guidelines in their production and QA.

        If any reference to non SI weights and measures can be found in the production process, there’s an embargo against it.

        But go on, explain to me the concept of relabeling stuff, as though I’m unfamiliar with the concept.

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          5 days ago

          That would be ridiculously difficult to enforce. Also, most manufacturing, American or not, is already done in metric. It would be trivial for companies to swap units. There are many, many better ways to tariff American goods.