PART B:  NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
                 Exhibit 17.  IMPORTS OF ENERGY-RELATED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, INCLUDING
                                              CRUDE OIL
                           (Details may not equal to tals 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 $)        ($)

2004                                                                                               

Jan.- Dec.            4,917,568  174,463,145       3,820,527       10,439  131,699,875        34.47
Jan.-                   393,790   11,612,214         309,437        9,982    8,835,252        28.55

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                     396,796   13,739,077         316,256       10,202   10,473,706        33.12
June                    434,959   15,218,210         346,490       11,550   11,697,207        33.76

July                    408,626   14,177,570         318,789       10,284   10,610,712        33.28
August                  430,232   16,080,613         331,185       10,683   12,043,670        36.37
September               388,526   14,971,323         303,605       10,120   11,421,201        37.62
October                 411,620   17,686,358         315,811       10,187   13,197,932        41.79
November                434,953   17,672,558         326,477       10,883   13,434,691        41.15
December                413,409   15,465,106         321,056       10,357   11,760,015        36.63

2005                                                                                               

Jan.-                   416,368   15,226,958         322,803       10,413   11,410,258        35.35

January                 416,368   15,226,958         322,803       10,413   11,410,258        35.35
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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/ft900 or www.bea.gov/bea/di/home/trade.htm.
                                                  
SOURCE: Report FT900 (CB-05-34, BEA-05-08), Bureau of the Census, Foreign
Trade Division, January 2005.  For more information, contact Nick Orsini
(301-763-6959) or Vanessa Ware (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division.