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 $)        ($)

2008                                                                                               

Jan.- Dec.            4,613,626  438,745,954       3,591,136        9,812  341,978,528        95.23
Jan.- Feb.              788,014   67,192,866         608,689       10,145   51,375,399        84.40

January                 420,916   35,836,371         322,206       10,394   27,093,581        84.09
February                367,098   31,356,495         286,483        9,879   24,281,817        84.76
March                   363,252   33,146,123         278,571        8,986   25,030,666        89.85
April                   388,145   38,185,528         303,050       10,102   29,339,760        96.81
May                     373,287   40,360,232         293,995        9,484   31,245,288       106.28
June                    382,675   45,207,376         297,532        9,918   34,850,146       117.13

July                    424,467   52,813,717         342,024       11,033   42,637,563       124.66
August                  388,679   46,012,928         308,380        9,948   37,000,980       119.99
September               339,044   36,179,838         253,276        8,443   27,247,205       107.58
October                 413,766   37,632,930         324,185       10,458   29,830,414        92.02
November                341,870   21,995,613         261,600        8,720   17,452,979        66.72
December                410,426   20,018,803         319,834       10,317   15,968,127        49.93

2009                                                                                               

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
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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-09-54, BEA-09-13), Bureau of the Census, Foreign
Trade Division, February 2009.  For more information, contact Nick Orsini
(301-763-6959) or Maria Iseman (301-763-2311), Foreign Trade Division.