U.S. crude oil imports averaged 7.158 million barrels per day (b/d) last week, up by 476,000 b/d from the previous week, while crude oil exports averaged 4.599 million b/d, up by 2.239 million b/d from the previous week, according to the EIA's Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
Over the past four weeks, U.S. crude oil imports averaged about 6.719 million b/d, up by 4.1 percent from the same four-week period last year.
During the same period, U.S. crude oil exports averaged about 4.208 million b/d, up by 11 percent year on year.
The United States has been one of the world's important oil producers in past years with the help of its shale oil production growth.
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