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  129,484,529       3,676,006       10,071   99,167,171        26.98
Jan.- Apr.            1,472,916   43,482,653       1,136,457        9,470   32,417,988        28.53

January                 362,626   10,219,542         273,338        8,817    7,586,818        27.76
February                320,153   10,083,953         250,262        8,938    7,600,554        30.37
March                   390,535   12,365,689         294,768        9,509    8,957,771        30.39
April                   399,601   10,813,469         318,088       10,603    8,272,846        26.01
May                     406,979   10,126,395         319,111       10,294    7,673,432        24.05
June                    402,804   10,535,222         312,982       10,433    7,979,665        25.50

July                    422,313   11,598,132         335,511       10,823    8,975,122        26.75
August                  398,306   11,306,914         319,674       10,312    8,808,654        27.56
September               393,522   10,686,495         316,796       10,560    8,372,252        26.43
October                 404,183   10,902,171         329,992       10,645    8,672,081        26.28
November                364,670    9,974,719         291,352        9,712    7,733,246        26.54
December                388,945   10,871,828         314,131       10,133    8,534,732        27.17

2004                                                                                               

Jan.- Apr.            1,598,449   49,452,330       1,240,858       10,255   37,060,740        29.87

January                 393,790   11,612,214         309,437        9,982    8,835,252        28.55
February                379,209   11,450,868         287,854        9,926    8,395,373        29.17
March                   431,545   13,722,675         331,653       10,698   10,161,735        30.64
April                   393,904   12,666,573         311,914       10,397    9,668,379        31.00
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 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-04-92, BEA-04-27), Bureau of the Census, Foreign
Trade Division, April 2004.  For more information, contact Haydn R.
Mearkle (301-763-2246) or Nick Orsini (301-763-2311), Foreign
Trade Division.