Ziegler focuses in this portion of his novel on the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialoge’s (TABD) compromise with the U.S. to putt off metrication in the larger goal of the European Union (abbreviated EU) to push the United States to fully adopt the metric/international system. In this, it becomes fairly clear that the differing measuring systems have initiated a trading rift between the U.S. and the Europe. In order to solve this rift, it seems fairly logical for the United States to “go metric,” as even international businesses who began in the U.S. have fully converted, some even refusing to do business in the U.S. due to the costs associated with having measurements documented in both systems. Of course,metrication would not occur overnight
