Import Sources
•Nearby dedicated suppliers
–Canada
–Virgin Islands
–Venezuela
•Nearby economic sources
–Western Europe – symbiotic relationship
–Eastern Europe
–Latin America
–Africa
•Other incremental supply
–Middle East and Asia
SGasoline import sources can be grouped based on several important attributes

SThe US is a major market for the refineries in Atlantic Canada and the Hovensa refinery in the Virgin Islands, and to a lesser extent the Venezuelan export refineries.

SWestern Europe has become a growing source of US gasoline as the US has been the market to absorb their excess gasoline production resulting from the growth of diesel demand in Europe.

SThus, the economic relationship weakens as the distance between source and market increases and also where other markets are available to compete for the gasoline exports of the source country.