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1 Short Ton [used in US] = 2 000 lbs or 907.2 kg. 1 Long Ton [used in UK and Commonwealth Nations] = 2 240 lbs or 1 016 kg. 1 Metric Ton = 2 204.6 lbs or 1000 kg. Written Mar 5.
USCS and Imperial also differed on several supplemental units; e.g., US hundredweight = 100 pounds, UK hundredweight = 112 pounds = 8 stone. A ton in each country was 20 hundredweight, but because of the difference in hundredweight, the US used a âshort tonâ of 2000 lbs, and the UK a âlong tonâ of 2240 lbs.