PART B:  NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
                 EXHIBIT 17.  IMPORTS OF ENERGY-RELATED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, INCLUDING
                                           CRUDE PETROLEUM
                           (Details may not equal totals due to rounding.)
                                                   

                    Total energy-related
                    petroleum products (1)       Crude Petroleum

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

2001                                                                                               

Jan.- Dec.            4,475,026  100,792,128       3,471,066        9,510   74,292,894        21.40

January                 407,653   10,328,610         284,112        9,165    6,587,525        23.19
February                343,372    8,705,522         247,331        8,833    5,898,237        23.85
March                   381,192    9,085,479         298,120        9,617    6,781,360        22.75
April                   396,417    9,251,557         306,008       10,200    6,626,718        21.66
May                     393,691    9,564,967         306,813        9,897    6,948,021        22.65
June                    371,745    8,918,180         288,550        9,618    6,663,067        23.09

July                    370,199    8,437,810         301,636        9,730    6,735,350        22.33
August                  371,249    8,509,619         293,215        9,459    6,492,209        22.14
September               344,231    8,199,657         270,713        9,024    6,231,952        23.02
October                 385,580    7,826,543         311,803       10,058    6,197,131        19.88
November                356,776    6,278,843         281,316        9,377    4,781,081        17.00
December                352,921    5,685,340         281,450        9,079    4,350,243        15.46

2002                                                                                               

Jan.- Dec.            4,344,215  100,586,104       3,425,406        9,385   77,371,866        22.59

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                   384,923    8,901,593         302,711       10,090    6,806,265        22.48
May                     370,996    8,993,542         288,742        9,314    6,861,396        23.76
June                    353,521    8,386,827         276,085        9,203    6,432,980        23.30

July                    363,153    8,789,117         287,608        9,278    6,822,555        23.72
August                  376,323    9,415,863         298,291        9,622    7,327,877        24.57
September               338,099    8,778,753         267,241        8,908    6,807,250        25.47
October                 381,444   10,239,471         307,469        9,918    8,046,780        26.17
November                379,486    9,422,814         296,124        9,871    7,214,294        24.36
December                375,929    9,304,892         289,305        9,332    6,986,268        24.15
                                                  

(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-03-29), Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade
Division, December 2002.  For more information, contact Haydn R.
Mearkle (301-763-2246) or Nick Orsini (301-763-2311), Foreign
Trade Division.