Seasonally Adjusted

Exports, Imports and Balance of Goods, Petroleum and Non-Petroleum End-Use Commodity Category Totals
(1996 Constant Dollars)

In millions of dollars.  Details may not equal totals due to seasonal adjustment and rounding.  The values in this exhibit 
are subject to period change, reflecting revisions to the source information for the monthly deflators.



                      Trade Balance                      Exports                        Imports

Period       Total     Petroleum     Non-       Total   Petroleum   Non-      Total    Petroleum    Non-
             Census               petroleum    Census             petroleum   Census              petroleum
            Basis (1)                         Basis (1)                      Basis(1)


1996
Jan-Dec       -170,865    -63,069    -107,797    625,902    9,607    616,294    796,767    72,676    724,091
January        -13,667     -5,011      -8,656     49,370      951     48,419     63,037     5,961     57,075
February       -11,949     -4,479      -7,470     50,961      848     50,113     62,910     5,327     57,583
March          -12,863     -4,544      -8,320     50,362      769     49,594     63,226     5,312     57,913
April          -12,764     -5,246      -7,518     50,799      645     50,154     63,563     5,891     57,672
May            -14,565     -5,598      -8,967     51,517      675     50,841     66,082     6,273     59,809
June           -14,766     -6,034      -8,731     51,790      627     51,163     66,555     6,662     59,894

July           -15,749     -5,832      -9,917     51,286      736     50,549     67,034     6,568     60,467
August         -15,511     -5,245     -10,266     52,667      793     51,874     68,178     6,038     62,140
September      -15,637     -5,592     -10,046     52,832      856     51,976     68,469     6,448     62,022
October        -13,551     -5,211      -8,340     54,343    1,019     53,323     67,894     6,230     61,664
November       -13,820     -4,811      -9,009     55,430      800     54,630     69,250     5,611     63,639
December       -16,024     -5,467     -10,556     54,547      888     53,659     70,570     6,355     64,215



(1)  Detailed data presented on a Census Basis.  The information to convert to a BOP basis is not available.


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       record titled "MORE DETAILED FOREIGN TRADE DATA AVAILABLE."