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In the United States and Canada, a ton is sometimes referred to as a short ton or net ton and is always equal to 2,000 pounds. In the United Kingdom, where the imperial system is used, the ton is often referred to as a long ton and is equal to 2,240 pounds or 1,016 kilograms. In areas where the metric system is used, a metric ton is equal to 1,000 kilograms.
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.