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One obvious problem: if a US factory has a surplus of drain pipes they cannot export them. US pipes are 1.5 inch = 38.1 mm whereas EU use 40 mm pipes. So US
by silvestrov 4y ago
One obvious problem: if a US factory has a surplus of drain pipes they cannot export them. US pipes are 1.5 inch = 38.1 mm whereas EU use 40 mm pipes.
So US companies cannot export surplus and will need new tooling when they want to export. That makes it much more difficult to expand into international markets.
- humanizersequel 4y agoYou could just as easily say that the EU will have trouble exporting their surplus drainage pipes.
- silvestrov 4y agoNo, rest of world is much more likely to use metric than imperial units. E.g. Japan use metric: https://www.kubota-chemix.co.jp/dcms_media/other/20161226_en_products.pdf https://www.kubota-chemix.co.jp/dcms_media/other/20161226_en...
- 314 4y agoNo, because the other regions of the world also use metric. America is an outlier.
- pwinnski 4y agoIt makes somewhat more sense to say that 3 countries have trouble exporting to the other 192 than the other way around.