PART B:     NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

EXHIBIT 17. IMPORTS OF ENERGY-RELATED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, INCLUDING 
            CRUDE PETROLEUM - JANUARY 2001 - JANUARY 2002 
            (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 $)     ($)


2001                                                              
                                                                  

Jan.- Dec 4,478,195 100,909,682  3,475,832      9,523 74,426,611  21.41
Jan.-       415,486  10,489,342    291,656      9,408  6,744,556  23.13
January     415,486  10,489,342    291,656      9,408  6,744,556  23.13
February    347,900   8,794,027    251,831      8,994  5,983,413  23.76
March       375,360   8,956,627    292,251      9,427  6,652,830  22.76
April       398,754   9,305,318    307,577     10,253  6,660,124  21.65
May         392,317   9,528,906    305,720      9,862  6,916,854  22.62
June        375,007   8,995,007    291,389      9,713  6,726,916  23.09

July        370,943   8,458,523    302,378      9,754  6,756,259  22.34
August      368,855   8,460,357    291,718      9,410  6,460,692  22.15
September   339,236   8,078,048    266,019      8,867  6,116,698  22.99
October     384,813   7,836,020    311,301     10,042  6,207,664  19.94
November    353,500   6,243,983    280,634      9,354  4,807,007  17.13
December    356,025   5,763,525    283,360      9,141  4,393,599  15.51


2002                            

                                                                  
Jan.-       377,460   6,360,213    301,049      9,711  4,908,983  16.31
January     377,460   6,360,213    301,049      9,711  4,908,983  16.31
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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.

NOTE:  For information on data sources, nonsampling errors and definitions,
see the information section on page 26 of this release or at www.census.gov/
foreign-trade/www/press.html.

SOURCE: Report FT900 (CB-02-37), Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade
        Division, January 2002.  For more information, contact Haydn R. 
        Mearkle (301-457-2246) or Nick Orsini (301-457-2311), Foreign 
        Trade Division.