PART B:     NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

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

                                                 1,000 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)     (Avg)      dollars)     ($)

1997                                                        
                                                            
Jan.- Dec.   3,793,098  69,121,336   3,061,399       8,387  54,091,331    17.67
Jan.-          287,411   6,491,986     216,778       6,993   4,774,598    22.03

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.-          325,160   4,811,494     264,221       8,523   3,808,981    14.42

January        325,160   4,811,494     264,221       8,523   3,808,981    14.42
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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-98-39), Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade
        Division, JANUARY 1998.  For more information, contact Haydn R. 
        Mearkle (301-457-2246) or Richard M. Preuss (301-457-2311), 
        Foreign Trade Division.