President Bush approved Steel tariffs - Welded steel pipes included

The hot news has been President Bush's decision to impose tariffs on steel imports. This includes welded steel pipes, Carbon and alloy fittings and flanges. White House is stating that:"A tariff of 15 percent will be imposed on imports of certain welded tubular products". Also, a tariff of 13 percent will be imposed on imports of carbon and alloy fittings and flanges".

The Europe Union has made an official complaint to WTO about the US tariffs. Also Australia and New Zealand has made the same. European Union announced also that it may impose some other actions against US tariffs within next 3 months.

Three new improvements for TubeNet

I am glad to introduce you three new improvements for TubeNet.

1. New Marketplace system
2. New Infocenter Bulletin Board
3. New Register system with pictures

New Marketplace system

The new Marketplace system has many new features. You can now add postings as before but now you can also change and remove them if you like. Also picture can be included with the posted message. I would think that second hand machine dealers will love this feature.

New Infocenter Bulletin Board

This is still under testing, but I have to say that I like the idea. Now you can leave question and others can post their reply and/or send you directly an answer by email. In many other sites this kind of Bulletin Board has found plenty of readers. Feel free to take advantage of this new system. Once people will find it, I feel it will create lot's of traffic.

New Register system with pictures

The good old TubeNet register has been updated also. Now you can put a picture there together with your registration details. How it works? Very simple. If you have a picture on your own website (or practically in any website) that you would like to use with your registration, just put it's address (URL) to your registration details. When the change is completed, the system will open this picture together with the description text when you or any TubeNet visitor opens your page again at TubeNet.

Atlanta Marathon

The last thing I am telling you this time is pretty much personal and proud thing for me. One week after Fabtech Chicago I managed to run Atlanta Marathon. 26.2 Miles (42.1 km) and the time was 4 hours 26 minutes and 56 seconds. The reason why I am very happy about it is because it was my first marathon ever. The results can be seen from http://www.atlantatrackclub.org/at03026.htm. The story goes like this:"Beer loving Tube man runs a marathon".

Cheers and let's run!
Juha Haapala