PART B:     NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

EXHIBIT 17. IMPORTS OF ENERGY-RELATED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, INCLUDING 
            CRUDE PETROLEUM - JANUARY 1997 - FEBRUARY 1998 
            (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

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

1997                                                                  
                                                                      
Jan-Dec    3,793,098  69,121,336    3,061,399      8,387  54,091,331     17.67
Jan-Feb      552,245  12,058,291      422,877      7,167   8,996,975     21.28
January      287,411   6,491,986      216,778      6,993   4,774,598     22.03
February     264,834   5,566,305      206,100      7,361   4,222,377     20.49
March        302,844   5,811,473      233,845      7,543   4,378,508     18.72
April        309,942   5,489,660      249,824      8,327   4,289,441     17.17
May          335,350   5,923,999      270,814      8,736   4,603,533     17.00
June         316,421   5,544,112      257,206      8,574   4,390,152     17.07

July         334,066   5,660,722      274,349      8,850   4,527,644     16.50
August       335,274   5,877,456      282,547      9,114   4,787,492     16.94
September    332,822   5,775,046      272,362      9,079   4,553,687     16.72
October      353,413   6,362,605      292,635      9,440   5,166,311     17.65
November     288,222   5,091,887      232,757      7,759   3,986,155     17.13
December     332,498   5,526,084      272,182      8,780   4,411,434     16.21

1998                            
                                                                      
Jan.- Feb    620,228   8,844,145      498,067      8,442   6,875,360     13.80
January      325,160   4,811,494      264,221      8,523   3,808,981     14.42
February     295,068   4,032,651      233,845      8,352   3,066,378     13.11
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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 liquified propane and butane gas.

SOURCE: Report FT900 (CB-98-60), Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade
        Division, FEBRUARY 1998.  For more information, contact Haydn R. 
        Mearkle (301-457-2246) or Richard M. Preuss (301-457-2311), 
        Foreign Trade Division.