PART B:     NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

EXHIBIT 17. IMPORTS OF ENERGY-RELATED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, INCLUDING 
            CRUDE PETROLEUM - JANUARY 1999 - APRIL 2000 
            (Details may not equal totals due to rounding.)

 
         Total energy-related
         petroleum products (1)           Crude petroluem

          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  4,081,181 65,931,249  3,228,092      8,844 50,889,621  15.76
Jan.-Apr  1,332,085 14,621,622  1,048,605      8,738 11,031,815  10.52
January     349,000  3,362,436    280,356      9,044  2,581,125   9.21
February    302,085  2,956,909    234,298      8,368  2,221,070   9.48
March       339,876  3,714,882    271,574      8,760  2,850,722  10.50
April       341,124  4,587,395    262,378      8,746  3,378,898  12.88
May         367,964  5,520,574    289,457      9,337  4,225,641  14.60
June        357,634  5,319,719    278,274      9,276  4,040,329  14.52

July        364,520  6,029,371    288,932      9,320  4,653,736  16.11
August      361,349  6,668,471    283,813      9,155  5,073,475  17.88
September   335,339  6,786,611    267,600      8,920  5,269,952  19.69
October     335,459  7,061,683    267,574      8,631  5,555,979  20.76
November    318,537  6,827,215    254,862      8,495  5,365,458  21.05
December    308,292  7,095,984    248,974      8,031  5,673,236  22.79


2000                            

                                                                 
Jan.-Apr  1,372,538 34,956,703  1,080,245      8,928 26,785,439  24.80
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
April       347,216  8,694,102    281,594      9,386  6,877,891  24.42
May                                                              
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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-00-94), Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade
        Division, April 2000.  For more information, contact Haydn R. 
        Mearkle (301-457-2246) or Nick Orsini (301-457-2311), Foreign 
        Trade Division.