                          PART A: SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
          EXHIBIT 9. EXPORTS, IMPORTS AND BALANCE OF GOODS, PETROLEUM
                   AND NON-PETROLEUM END-USE CATEGORY TOTALS
                            JANUARY 2002 TO May 2003
                                        
     (In millions of dollars.  Details may not equal totals due to seasonal
                    adjustments and rounding.  (R) Revised.)

Balance
                                      Net                         Non-
Period                 Total          Adjustments   Petroleum (1) petroleum

2002                                                                       

Jan.- Dec.              -482,872        -14,609       -93,169      -375,093
Jan.- May               -186,636         -6,096       -33,692      -146,848

January                  -33,495           -964        -5,577       -26,954
February                 -35,876         -1,100        -5,189       -29,588
March                    -36,661         -1,342        -6,151       -29,168
April                    -39,773         -1,135        -8,268       -30,369
May                      -40,830         -1,556        -8,506       -30,769
June                     -40,683         -1,173        -7,909       -31,600

July                     -39,304         -1,207        -8,201       -29,895
August                   -42,070         -1,304        -8,623       -32,143
September                -41,938         -1,169        -8,426       -32,343
October                  -40,647         -1,311        -9,666       -29,671
November                 -44,147         -1,213        -8,568       -34,366
December                 -47,447         -1,135        -8,084       -38,227

2003                                                                       

Jan.- May               -229,156         -5,763       -50,024      -173,369

January                  -44,859           -942        -9,272       -34,645
February                 -43,654         -1,064        -9,956       -32,633
March                    -47,507         -1,221       -11,264       -35,022
April (R)                -46,359         -1,291       -10,206       -34,862
May                      -46,777         -1,244        -9,325       -36,207
June                                                                       

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Exports
                                      Net                         Non-
Period                 Total          Adjustments   Petroleum (1) petroleum

2002                                                                       

Jan.- Dec.               681,874        -11,229        10,338       682,765
Jan.- May                279,018         -4,744         3,842       279,919

January                   55,228           -732           755        55,205
February                  54,988           -877           737        55,128
March                     55,083         -1,064           731        55,415
April                     56,871           -818           832        56,858
May                       56,848         -1,253           787        57,314
June                      57,702           -877           750        57,829

July                      58,638           -923           830        58,731
August                    57,870         -1,007           958        57,918
September                 57,807           -856           880        57,783
October                   57,301           -989           948        57,341
November                  57,765           -927           942        57,749
December                  55,774           -907         1,187        55,494

2003                                                                       

Jan.- May                288,158         -4,489         5,596       287,051

January                   57,143           -747         1,131        56,759
February                  57,907           -857         1,128        57,635
March                     58,296           -973         1,250        58,018
April (R)                 57,230         -1,026         1,073        57,183
May                       57,583           -887         1,014        57,456
June                                                                       

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Imports
                                      Net                         Non-
Period                 Total          Adjustments   Petroleum (1) petroleum

2002                                                                       

Jan.- Dec.             1,164,746          3,380       103,507     1,057,859
Jan.- May                465,653          1,352        37,534       426,767

January                   88,723            232         6,332        82,159
February                  90,864            223         5,926        84,715
March                     91,744            278         6,883        84,583
April                     96,644            317         9,100        87,227
May                       97,678            302         9,293        88,083
June                      98,385            296         8,659        89,430

July                      97,942            284         9,032        88,626
August                    99,940            297         9,581        90,062
September                 99,745            313         9,306        90,126
October                   97,949            322        10,614        87,012
November                 101,911            286         9,510        92,115
December                 103,220            228         9,271        93,721

2003                                                                       

Jan.- May                517,314          1,274        55,620       460,420

January                  102,001            195        10,404        91,403
February                 101,560            207        11,085        90,268
March                    105,803            249        12,514        93,041
April (R)                103,589            266        11,278        92,045
May                      104,360            357        10,340        93,664
June                                                                       

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(1)  The petroleum products aggregated in the end-use commodity classification
system include virtually the same energy related petroleum products as those
aggregated in the SITC. The end-use petroleum products, however, include some
products such as ethane, butane, benzene and toluene, which are included in
"Manufactured Goods".

NOTE:  For information on data sources, nonsampling errors, definitions and
details concerning what is included in the Net Adjustments, see the information
section on page 26 of this release, or at
www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/press.html or www.bea.gov/bea/rels.htm.
                                                  

SOURCE: Report FT900 (CB-03-107, BEA-03-27), Bureau of the Census, Foreign
Trade Division, May 2003.  For more information, contact Haydn R.
Mearkle (301-763-2246) or Nick Orsini (301-763-2311), Foreign
Trade Division.
