The three charts below show the value in Australian dollars of Australian trade with three different countries from 2004 to 2009.

The three-line chart illustrates the numerical details of Australian import and export with China,

Japan

, and the USA in 2004-2009. The figures are presented in Billions.

Overall

, it can be seen that

Australia

's trade with China significantly increased

while

with

Japan

and the USA, imports got similar trends.

However

, the values of exports with these two nations fluctuated in a given period of the years. It can be noticed that

Australia

sold over 10

billion

worth of products and services to China in 2004, which dramatically increased over the next five years, and reached approximately 35

billion

in 2009.

On the other hand

,

Japan

bought just over 20

billion

of products from

Australia

in 2009, and that figure climbed to 28

billion

in 2005, between 2006-2007 there was no noticeable improvement,

whereas

from 2007-2009 there was a flute, in 2008 it hit at around 42

billion

and numbers dramatically decreased to 30

billion

.

On the other hand

, exports to America presented a similar trend during the given period and that started at marginally above 9

billion

and until 2008 there was no noticeable movement

nevertheless

, the

last

12 months export figures went up slightly. In terms of trading with

Japan

and the USA, from 2004 to 2007

Australia

's purchase ability with the Japanese market remained unchanged the amount around 19

billion

, and in 2008 slightly over 20

billion

, and

then

a drop in 2009. Despite that numerical variation of imports in America with figure out with similar movements the value started at 21

billion

and declined to 19

billion

in the final year.