
PART B:     NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED

EXHIBIT 17. IMPORTS OF ENERGY-RELATED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, INCLUDING 
            CRUDE PETROLEUM - JANUARY 1998 - MAY 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.- May 1,670,078 21,841,577  1,338,022      8,861 16,760,783  12.53
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.- May 1,686,500 19,889,169  1,323,026      8,762 14,993,285  11.33
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                                                             

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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-99-137), Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade
        Division, May 1999.  For more information, contact Haydn R. 
        Mearkle (301-457-2246) or Nick Orsini (301-457-2311), 
        Foreign Trade Division.