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Engineering Alliance Takes up Metric Issue
01 Dec 2006
Working on behalf of UK SME engineering firms, the Engineering and Machinery Alliance (EAMA) has asked Industry Minister Margaret Hodge to fight the possible ban on the use of imperial measures in literature and on products. This ban could come in from 2010 and would apply to products destined for EU and non-EU markets.
Having joined the powerful Europewide engineering lobbying organisation Orgalime, EAMA is already lobbying on this issue in Brussels.
EAMA chairman Graham Hayes: “We had an extremely sympathetic hearing from the minister and were able to discuss ways to mitigate some of the unintended consequences of policy on our members. The metric issue is one, where for example it would make it much more difficult for us to export to the USA. The others were family friendly policies, manufacturing’s poor investment record, regionalisation and regulation/red tape. We expect to progress each of these areas over the next 12 months.
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