HOUSTON: U.S. crude oil imports decreased but exports increased during the week ending July 8, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a report released on Wednesday. U.S. crude oil imports averaged 6.675 million barrels per day (b/d) last week, down by 164,000 b/d from the previous week, while crude oil exports averaged 3.024 million b/d, up by 412,000 b/d from the previous week, according to the Weekly Petroleum Status Report. Over the past four weeks, crude oil imports averaged about 6.435 million b/d, up by 1.2 percent from the same four-week period last year. During the same period, crude oil exports averaged about 3.147 million b/d, down by 10.2 percent year on year.