PART B:  NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
                 EXHIBIT 17.  IMPORTS OF ENERGY-RELATED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, INCLUDING
                                              CRUDE OIL
                           (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 $)        ($)

2003                                                                                               

Jan.- Dec.            4,654,638  129,580,947       3,673,596       10,065   99,094,675        26.97
Jan.- Feb.              676,574   20,175,777         515,536        8,738   14,970,654        29.04

January                 360,017   10,180,337         268,431        8,659    7,444,163        27.73
February                316,557    9,995,440         247,105        8,825    7,526,491        30.46
March                   395,753   12,482,600         300,689        9,700    9,101,197        30.27
April                   396,513   10,743,443         314,662       10,489    8,188,808        26.02
May                     407,791   10,167,192         320,541       10,340    7,727,416        24.11
June                    401,212   10,560,977         311,946       10,398    7,955,140        25.50

July                    426,696   11,670,580         339,669       10,957    9,068,389        26.70
August                  397,015   11,270,137         319,337       10,301    8,797,303        27.55
September               394,328   10,733,700         316,193       10,540    8,371,844        26.48
October                 402,340   10,856,961         327,444       10,563    8,594,549        26.25
November                363,893    9,953,160         290,205        9,674    7,695,589        26.52
December                392,524   10,966,420         317,375       10,238    8,623,786        27.17

2004                                                                                               

Jan.- Feb.              762,607   22,635,410         597,291        9,955   17,230,625        28.85

January                 388,549   11,405,335         309,437        9,982    8,835,252        28.55
February                374,059   11,230,075         287,854        9,926    8,395,373        29.17
March                                                                                              
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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 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-04-59, BEA-04-15), Bureau of the Census, Foreign
Trade Division, February 2004.  For more information, contact Haydn R.
Mearkle (301-763-2246) or Nick Orsini (301-763-2311), Foreign
Trade Division.