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documentary standards and services for legal metrology – <em>the practice and process of applying regulatory structure and laws enforcement to metrology</em>. This is directly aligned with our activities as the National Metrology Institute (NMI) for the U.S. to advance measurement science, standards, and technology and promote equitable standards worldwide, as well as our NIST mission to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness to enhance economic security.</p> <p class="paragraph">Nearly 50 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product is impacted by the sales of products and services based on weights or measures. <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="d6b68bdc-cc73-4194-ad92-17f459f1618f" href="/web/20230203121020/https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/staff-and-technical-experts-directory" title="OWM Staff and Technical Experts Directory">Our staff</a> works with a range of industry sectors -- such as the retail food sales, petroleum and chemical products, and transportation, including emerging commercial market sectors such as charging of electric vehicles and e-commerce. We promote <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="d897ce5e-ca33-4ca5-b462-08c0e65c928c" href="/web/20230203121020/https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/metric-si" title="Metric Program">SI </a>use and traceability, promote and deliver <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="add127e0-ebf3-44c3-acfb-861a259ee2f5" href="/web/20230203121020/https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/publications" title="OWM Publications and Documentary Standards">documentary standards</a>, develop technical guidance for <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="7db69429-69dc-4dea-9732-baedfbfd7d3a" href="/web/20230203121020/https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/legal-metrology-publication-series-sp-2200" title="Legal Metrology Publication Series: SP 2200">legal metrology</a>, and provide training for <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="2fdf6250-2582-4211-831b-f29510b1d6f2" href="/web/20230203121020/https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/laboratory-metrology" title="Laboratory Metrology Program">laboratory metrologists</a> and <a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="f28337b2-3c56-4bce-990f-ba4e856170c5" href="/web/20230203121020/https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/training" title="Weights and Measures Calendar of Events">weights and measures officials</a>.</p> <p class="paragraph"><a data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="3c32ba8c-656e-4b59-824c-0fade928dccc" href="/web/20230203121020/https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/programs" title="OWM Programs and Core Areas">OWM Programs</a> aim to ensure consumers get what they pay for, and sellers get fair payment for the goods and services they sell based on weight or measure through a uniform measurement infrastructure. 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