PART B:     NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

EXHIBIT 17. IMPORTS OF ENERGY-RELATED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, INCLUDING 
            CRUDE PETROLEUM - JANUARY 2001 - MARCH 2002 
            (Details may not equal totals due to rounding.)


 
         Total energy-related
         petroleum products      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.- Mar  1,138,745  28,239,995     835,737       9,286  19,380,799  23.19
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.- Mar  1,020,341  18,353,232     811,830       9,020  14,066,200  17.33
January      377,460   6,360,213     301,049       9,711   4,908,983  16.31
February     307,812   5,272,224     243,528       8,697   4,031,814  16.56
March        335,070   6,720,794     267,254       8,621   5,125,403  19.18
April
May
June
 
July
August
September
October
November
December
 
(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 liquefied 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 or www.bea.gov/bea/rels.htm.

SOURCE: Report FT900 (CB-02-65), Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade
        Division, March 2002.  For more information, contact Haydn R. 
        Mearkle (301-457-2246) or Nick Orsini (301-457-2311), Foreign 
        Trade Division.