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Release Date: October 19, 2011 
Next Update: August 2012

Table 3.7  Value of Fossil Fuel Imports, 1949-2010
                     (Billion Dollars)


Year		 Coal Coal Coke Natural Gas Crude Oil 1 Petroleum Products 2 Total
Nominal 3 Real 4 Nominal 3 Real 4 Nominal 3 Real 4 Nominal 3 Real 4 Nominal 3 Real 4 Nominal 3 Real 4
1949
 (s) 0.02 (s) 0.03 0.00 0.00 0.30 2.10 0.14 0.95 0.45 3.09
1950
 (s) .02 .01 .04 .00 .00 .37 2.52 .21 1.47 .59 4.04
1951
 (s) .02 (s) .01 .00 .00 .37 2.39 .23 1.44 .61 3.86
1952
 (s) .01 (s) .03 (s) .01 .42 2.65 .25 1.58 .68 4.28
1953
 (s) .01 (s) .01 (s) .01 .51 3.15 .25 1.56 .77 4.74
1954
 (s) .01 (s) .01 (s) .01 .54 3.34 .28 1.74 .83 5.11
1955
 (s) .02 (s) .01 (s) .01 .65 3.95 .44 2.66 1.10 6.64
1956
 (s) .02 (s) .01 (s) .01 .84 4.88 .45 2.61 1.29 7.53
1957
 (s) .02 (s) .01 (s) .02 .98 5.53 .57 3.20 1.56 8.78
1958
 (s) .01 (s) .01 .02 .12 .94 5.18 .68 3.78 1.65 9.11
1959
 (s) .01 (s) .01 .03 .14 .87 4.76 .66 3.61 1.57 8.54
1960
 (s) .01 (s) .01 .03 .15 .90 4.81 .73 3.93 1.66 8.92
1961
 (s) .01 (s) .01 .04 .24 .93 4.96 .71 3.78 1.69 8.99
1962
 (s) .01 (s) .01 .09 .45 1.01 5.31 .75 3.95 1.86 9.73
1963
 (s) .01 (s) .01 .10 .51 1.03 5.32 .74 3.83 1.87 9.68
1964
 (s) .01 (s) .01 .10 .51 1.08 5.52 .78 4.00 1.97 10.05
1965
 (s) .01 (s) .01 .11 .53 1.12 5.62 .92 4.64 2.15 10.80
1966
 (s) .01 (s) .01 .11 .52 1.12 5.44 .99 4.82 2.21 10.80
1967
 (s) .01 (s) .01 .13 .61 1.06 5.04 1.02 4.81 2.21 10.48
1968
 (s) .01 (s) .01 .15 .67 1.18 5.38 1.16 5.29 2.50 11.35
1969
 (s) (s) (s) .01 .20 .84 1.30 5.62 1.24 5.36 2.74 11.85
1970
 (s) (s) (s) .01 .26 1.06 1.26 5.18 1.48 6.10 3.00 12.35
1971
 (s) .01 .01 .02 .31 1.22 1.69 6.61 1.66 6.49 3.66 14.34
1972
 (s) (s) (s) .02 .31 1.18 2.37 8.90 1.99 7.47 4.68 17.57
1973
 (s) .01 .04 .14 .36 1.29 4.24 15.08 3.50 12.44 8.14 28.96
1974
 .06 .19 .19 .63 .53 1.73 15.25 49.74 11.01 35.91 27.05 88.21
1975
 .02 .06 .16 .47 1.15 3.43 18.29 54.50 6.77 20.17 26.39 78.62
1976
 .02 .05 .11 .31 1.66 4.68 25.46 71.73 6.65 18.74 33.90 95.51
1977
 .04 .10 .13 .35 2.00 5.30 33.59 88.98 8.42 22.30 44.18 117.03
1978
 .07 .18 .41 1.01 2.06 5.10 32.30 79.95 7.30 18.08 42.15 104.32
1979
 .05 .12 .34 .78 3.13 7.14 46.06 105.25 10.45 23.88 60.03 137.17
1980
 .03 .06 .05 .11 4.21 8.82 61.90 129.63 12.54 26.26 78.74 164.89
1981
 .03 .06 .04 .08 4.41 8.45 61.46 117.68 14.30 27.38 80.24 153.64
1982
 .02 .04 .01 .02 4.69 8.47 45.72 82.52 13.86 25.02 64.31 116.06
1983
 .04 .07 (s) (s) 4.39 7.62 36.49 63.35 14.84 25.76 55.77 96.81
1984
 .05 .08 .05 .08 3.44 5.75 36.44 60.98 17.87 29.89 57.84 96.78
1985
 .07 .11 .04 .07 3.05 4.95 32.90 53.43 17.47 28.37 53.53 86.93
1986
 .08 .13 .03 .04 1.82 2.90 22.61 35.92 12.18 19.35 36.72 58.34
1987
 .06 .09 .05 .08 1.93 2.98 29.13 44.98 12.37 19.09 43.54 67.22
1988
 .06 .10 .19 .29 2.38 3.55 27.55 41.12 12.43 18.56 42.62 63.62
1989
 .10 .14 .22 .31 2.51 3.60 35.53 51.11 13.50 19.42 51.85 74.58
1990
 .09 .13 .07 .10 2.97 4.12 43.78 60.64 16.90 23.41 63.83 88.40
1991
 .11 .15 .09 .12 3.24 4.33 36.90 49.36 13.17 17.62 53.51 71.58
1992
 .13 .17 .14 .19 3.96 5.17 38.55 50.37 11.98 15.66 54.77 71.56
1993
 .25 .32 .17 .21 4.77 6.10 38.47 49.18 11.74 15.01 55.40 70.82
1994
 .27 .34 .27 .34 4.90 6.14 38.48 48.18 11.14 13.95 55.07 68.95
1995
 .32 .40 .33 .40 4.23 5.19 42.81 52.51 9.95 12.20 57.64 70.69
1996
 .27 .33 .24 .29 5.79 6.97 54.93 66.11 15.27 18.38 76.51 92.08
1997
 .26 .30 .25 .30 6.50 7.68 54.23 64.13 5 16.93 5 20.02 78.16 92.43
1998
 .28 .33 .29 .34 6.21 7.26 37.25 43.56 13.01 15.22 57.05 66.71
1999
 .28 .32 .23 .26 8.03 9.26 50.89 58.65 16.28 18.77 75.71 87.26
2000
 .38 .42 .25 .28 14.94 16.85 89.88 101.39 29.38 33.14 134.81 152.08
2001
 .67 .74 .19 .21 17.62 19.44 74.29 81.96 28.45 31.39 121.23 133.73
2002
 .60 .65 .24 .27 12.61 13.69 79.25 86.03 23.52 25.53 116.22 126.17
2003
 .79 .84 .24 .25 20.39 21.67 101.80 108.18 30.64 32.56 153.85 163.49
2004
 1.02 1.06 1.23 1.27 24.74 25.57 136.03 140.57 43.24 44.68 206.26 213.15
2005
 1.42 1.42 .78 .78 35.25 35.25 182.94 182.94 67.12 67.12 287.52 287.52
2006
 1.78 1.72 .64 .62 28.80 27.89 225.16 218.05 74.56 72.21 330.93 320.49
2007
 1.73 1.63 .48 .45 31.65 R 29.78 245.77 R 231.21 81.85 R 77.00 361.48 R 340.07
2008
 2.05 R 1.88 1.68 1.54 R 34.66 R 31.91 353.54 R 325.48 96.31 R 88.67 R 488.23 R 449.49
2009
 1.45 1.32 .09 .08 R 15.72 R 14.34 R 194.60 R 177.53 57.23 R 52.21 R 269.09 R 245.49
2010
 P 1.39 P 1.26 P .40 P .36 E 16.89 E 15.26 P 260.13 P 235.07 P 73.23 P 66.17 P 352.04 P 318.13
1Beginning in 1977, includes imports into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. 5There is a discontinuity in this time series between 1996 and 1997 due to the addition of the
commodity category "Other Mineral Fuels."
2Includes petroleum preparations, liquefied propane and butane, and, beginning in 1997, other mineral
fuels.		 R=Revised.  P=Preliminary.  E=Estimate.  (s)=Less than 0.005 billion. 
3See "Nominal Dollars" in Glossary. Notes:  ·  Includes value of imports into Puerto Rico from foreign countries;  excludes receipts into the 50
States and the District of Columbia from the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.  ·  Totals may not equal sum of
components due to independent rounding.
4In chained (2005) dollars, calculated by using gross domestic product implicit price deflators in Table
D1.  See "Chained Dollars" in Glossary.		 Sources:  Coal and Coal Coke:  Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade Division, unpublished data. 
Natural Gas:  ·  1949-1962—Bureau of the Census, U.S. Imports of Merchandise for Consumption,
FT110.  ·  1963—Bureau of the Census, U.S. Imports of Merchandise for Consumption, FT125.
·  1964-1971—Bureau of the Census, U.S. Imports for Consumption and General Imports, FT246.  ·  1972
and 1973—Federal Power Commission (FPC), Pipeline Imports and Exports of Natural Gas - Imports and
Exports of LNG.  ·  1974-1977—FPC, United States Imports and Exports of Natural Gas, annual reports.
·  1978-1981—U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), U.S. Imports and Exports of Natural Gas,
annual reports.  ·  1982-2008—EIA, Natural Gas Monthly (NGM), monthly reports.
·  2009—EIA, NGM (April 2011), Table 4.  ·  2010—EIA estimate based on volume and revenue data from
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy.  Crude Oil and Petroleum Products:
·  1949-1962—Bureau of the Census, U.S. Imports of Merchandise for Consumption, FT110.
·  1963—Bureau of the Census, U.S. Imports of Merchandise for Consumption, FT125.
·  1964-1988—Bureau of the Census, U.S. Imports for Consumption, FT135.  ·  1989 forward—Bureau of
the Census, Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Merchandise Trade, FT900, "Exhibit 15.  Exports and Imports of
Goods by Principal SITC Commodity Groupings," December issues.