PART B:     NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

EXHIBIT 17. IMPORTS OF ENERGY-RELATED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, INCLUDING 
            CRUDE PETROLEUM - JANUARY 1998 - MARCH 2000 
            (Details may not equal totals due to rounding.)

 
         Total energy-related
         petroleum products (1)           Crude petroleum

          Quantity     Value    Quantity    1,000's     Value    Unit 
          (1,000's   (1,000's   (1,000's  of barrels  (1,000's   price
 Period   of BBL's)    of $)    of BBL's) per day avg   of $)     ($)


1999                                                             
                                                                 

Jan.- Dec 4,076,511 65,674,567  3,223,755      8,832 50,661,646  15.72
Jan.- Mar   979,498  9,899,834    773,505      8,595  7,504,224   9.70

January     330,815  3,192,483    262,434      8,466  2,412,950   9.19
February    316,359  3,092,851    247,595      8,843  2,343,134   9.46
March       332,325  3,614,500    263,476      8,499  2,748,139  10.43
April       353,330  4,693,856    274,232      9,141  3,485,593  12.71
May         353,672  5,295,479    275,289      8,880  4,003,468  14.54
June        369,728  5,491,895    290,410      9,680  4,217,774  14.52

July        353,327  5,826,389    277,017      8,936  4,435,369  16.01
August      357,411  6,575,316    281,061      9,066  5,001,610  17.80
September   340,135  6,829,485    274,202      9,140  5,351,367  19.52
October     330,323  6,953,342    264,306      8,526  5,481,262  20.74
November    329,595  7,015,800    263,070      8,769  5,499,049  20.90
December    309,492  7,093,172    250,664      8,086  5,681,930  22.67


2000                            

                                                                 
Jan.- Mar 1,025,322 26,262,601    798,651      8,776 19,907,547  24.93

January     324,531  7,660,406    252,342      8,140  5,849,073  23.18
February    340,100  8,823,527    258,020      8,897  6,453,738  25.01
March       360,692  9,778,668    288,289      9,300  7,604,736  26.38
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(1)  Details shown for these Energy-Related Petroleum Products are not
available on a Balance of Payments basis.  These products include the
following SITC commodity groupings; crude oil, petroleum preparations,
and liquified propane and butane gas.

SOURCE: Report FT900 (CB-00-83), Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade
        Division, March 2000.  For more information, contact Haydn R. 
        Mearkle (301-457-2246) or Nick Orsini (301-457-2311), Foreign 
        Trade Division.