PART B:     NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

EXHIBIT 17. IMPORTS OF ENERGY-RELATED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, INCLUDING 
            CRUDE PETROLEUM - JANUARY 1998 - JUNE 1999 
            (Details may not equal totals due to rounding.)

 
          Quantity     Value    Quantity    1,000's     Value      Unit 
          (1,000's   (1,000's   (1,000's  of barrels  (1,000's     price
 Period   of BBL's)    of $)    of BBL's) per day avg  of  $)       ($)


1998                                                  
                                                      

Jan-Dec   4,088,027 49,131,751  3,242,711      8,884 37,252,222      11.49
Jan-Jun   2,011,700 25,867,453  1,609,337      8,891 19,779,125      12.29
January     332,557  4,876,618    271,208      8,749  3,880,647      14.31
February    292,678  3,983,303    230,593      8,235  3,001,696      13.02
March       330,542  4,099,083    263,407      8,497  3,128,940      11.88
April       357,373  4,415,302    289,968      9,666  3,412,229      11.77
May         356,929  4,467,270    282,846      9,124  3,337,271      11.80
June        341,622  4,025,877    271,314      9,044  3,018,342      11.12

July        366,139  4,165,324    289,718      9,346  3,122,180      10.78
August      374,808  4,135,575    300,227      9,685  3,166,475      10.55
September   330,636  3,787,301    259,951      8,665  2,857,357      10.99
October     342,903  4,183,402    263,149      8,489  3,068,900      11.66
November    337,814  3,811,407    267,953      8,932  2,890,373      10.79
December    324,027  3,181,289    252,378      8,141  2,367,812       9.38


1999                            

                                                      
Jan-Jun   2,056,228 25,381,063  1,613,436      8,914 19,211,059      11.91
January     330,815  3,192,483    262,434      8,466  2,412,950       9.19
February    316,359  3,092,851    247,595      8,843  2,343,134       9.46
March       332,325  3,614,500    263,476      8,499  2,748,139      10.43
April       353,330  4,693,856    274,232      9,141  3,485,593      12.71
May         353,672  5,295,479    275,289      8,880  4,003,468      14.54
June        369,728  5,491,895    290,410      9,680  4,217,774      14.52

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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-99-155), Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade
        Division, June 1999.  For more information, contact Haydn R. 
        Mearkle (301-457-2246) or Nick Orsini (301-457-2311), Foreign 
        Trade Division.