\RN 12 01 00 120
\RT DATA REP
\DI GRAPH

PART B:     NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

EXHIBIT 18. IMPORTS OF ENERGY-RELATED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, INCLUDING 
            CRUDE PETROLEUM - JANUARY 1993 - DECEMBER 1994

(Details may not equal totals due to rounding.)



           TOTAL ENERGY-RELATED
          PETROLEUM PRODUCTS (1)  C R U D E    P E T R O L E U M

                                            (1,000 of                               
           Quantity     Value     Quantity   barrels)    Value      Unit
          (1,000 of   (1,000 of   (1,000 of  per day   (1,000 of   Price
 Period    barrels)    dollars)   barrels)  (average)   dollars)  (dollars)

1993                                                               

Jan - Dec  3,257,008  50,210,292  2,543,374     6,968  38,469,376   15.13
January      266,997   4,230,077    211,974     6,838   3,285,540   15.50
February     226,799   3,660,946    175,907     6,282   2,763,937   15.71
March        266,422   4,451,882    206,109     6,649   3,399,563   16.49
April        278,989   4,755,266    220,275     7,343   3,677,320   16.69
May          266,018   4,561,206    211,342     6,817   3,531,646   16.71
June         282,280   4,621,590    222,528     7,418   3,575,302   16.07
          
July         287,498   4,379,011    229,523     7,404   3,434,518   14.96
August       264,478   3,906,945    204,153     6,586   2,961,343   14.51
September    271,272   3,975,371    206,735     6,891   2,970,526   14.37
October      293,942   4,361,028    223,416     7,207   3,260,463   14.59
November     286,793   4,023,995    228,292     7,610   3,131,384   13.72
December     265,521   3,282,976    203,121     6,552   2,477,834   12.20

1994
                                                                   
Jan - Dec  3,421,210  49,578,627  2,704,208     7,409  38,463,525   14.22

January      255,341   3,055,545    195,116     6,294   2,264,555   11.61
February     253,289   3,232,883    182,491     6,518   2,194,646   12.03
March        293,602   3,653,670    221,945     7,160   2,615,549   11.78
April        278,798   3,692,792    218,015     7,267   2,784,967   12.77
May          281,445   4,032,204    217,140     7,005   3,048,080   14.04
June         306,663   4,697,954    249,287     8,310   3,773,009   15.14

July         309,605   5,026,824    245,858     7,931   3,948,804   16.06
August       309,744   5,062,672    241,388     7,787   3,863,535   16.01
September    310,784   4,709,013    260,838     8,695   3,919,115   15.03
October      270,244   4,034,028    221,881     7,157   3,291,364   14.83
November     281,980   4,358,642    229,632     7,654   3,514,576   15.31
December     269,715   4,022,400    220,617     7,117   3,245,325   14.71
__________________________________________________________________________

(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 liquified propane and butane gas.  See exhibit 16 
     under Mineral fuel for SITC system detail.





SOURCE: Report FT900 (CB-95-35), Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade
        Division, DECEMBER 1994.  For more information, contact Haydn R. 
        Mearkle (301-457-2246) or Richard M. Preuss (301-457-2311), 
        Foreign Trade Division.