                                                   
PART B:  NOT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
Exhibit 17.  IMPORTS OF ENERGY-RELATED PETROLEUM PRODUCTS, INCLUDING
CRUDE OIL
(Details may not equal totals due to rounding.)


                    Total energy-related
                    petroleum products (1)       Crude Petroleum

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

2009                                                                                               

Jan.- Dec.            4,263,292  245,482,572       3,311,883        9,074  188,498,323        56.92
Jan.- Feb.              740,570   29,960,553         555,010        9,407   21,945,905        39.54

January                 404,658   16,342,408         300,137        9,682   11,949,605        39.81
February                335,912   13,618,145         254,874        9,103    9,996,300        39.22
March                   377,470   16,047,403         289,693        9,345   11,983,004        41.36
April                   367,943   17,403,719         292,601        9,753   13,633,848        46.60
May                     338,081   17,703,718         261,888        8,448   13,410,641        51.21
June                    369,963   22,415,123         280,424        9,347   16,592,370        59.17

July                    377,218   23,720,887         296,274        9,557   18,510,434        62.48
August                  338,539   22,389,783         268,429        8,659   17,381,693        64.75
September               361,956   24,872,287         286,217        9,541   19,511,645        68.17
October                 329,245   22,450,143         258,829        8,349   17,441,313        67.39
November                314,238   22,969,832         245,448        8,182   17,805,957        72.54
December                348,069   25,549,123         277,069        8,938   20,281,513        73.20

2010                                                                                               

Jan.- Feb.              642,539   47,722,622         488,578        8,281   35,864,488        73.41

January                 329,246   24,681,956         245,273        7,912   18,122,185        73.89
February                313,293   23,040,666         243,305        8,689   17,742,303        72.92
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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 liquefied propane
and butane gas.

NOTE:  For information on data sources, nonsampling errors and definitions, see
the information section on page A-1 of this release, or at
www.census.gov/ft900 or
www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/trade/tradnewsrelease.htm.
                                                   
SOURCE: Report FT900 (CB-10-50, BEA-10-13), Bureau of the Census, Foreign
Trade Division, February 2010.  For more information, contact Nick Orsini
(301-763-6959) or Maria Iseman (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division.
