In 2007, the European Commission also announced that (to appease British public opinion and to facilitate trade with the United States) it was to abandon the requirement for metric-only labelling on packaged goods, and to allow dual metric–imperial marking to continue indefinitely.
2007年，欧洲联盟委员会还宣布（为了安抚英国公众舆论和促进与美国的贸易），它将放弃要求包装商品仅使用公制标签，并允许公制-英制双重标识无限期地继续下去。