2007 Minnesota Statutes

239.002 PURPOSE AND POLICY.
In recognition of the facts that (1) only about one dozen countries in the world have not yet
adopted or begun to implement the metric system of weights and measures; (2) the United States
is one, and the only major industrialized nation, of that remaining number; (3) the secretary of
commerce of the United States, pursuant to a two-year study under the Metric Study Act of
1968, has recommended that the United States now begin a deliberate change to the metric
system; (4) economists and other students of international trade recognize the pressing necessity
of such a change if this country is to maintain and improve its rightful place in the world trade
community; and (5) as the continued economic growth of this state and its local industry is
inextricably linked with the ability of the United States to hold and competitively serve foreign
export markets, it is, therefore, declared to be in the best interest of the state of Minnesota and its
citizens that this state now begin the gradual but deliberate implementation of the metric system
of weights and measures.
History: 1974 c 474 s 2; 1986 c 444