The following charts illustrate the value of Australia's trade with China, Japan and the United States between 2004 to 2009. Units are measured in Australian 
dollars
.
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Overall
, it is readily apparent that 2008 was the year with the highest peak of both exports and imports in the three countries analyzed. 
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For instance
, when talking about exports, Japan is the Linking Words
leader
 country amongst the others with a value of 40 billion Australian Replace the word
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dollars
 in 2008. It is closely followed by China, with an export rate reaching more than 30 billion Use synonyms
dollars
 in 2009. Use synonyms
Finally
, the United States sits in third place with less than 10 billion Linking Words
dollars
 for every year recorded in the study.
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Furtheremore
, we can notice that imports experienced fewer changes than exports, with a Correct your spelling
Furthermore
steadily
 trend of almost 20 Change the adverb
steady
billions
 for Japan from 2004 to 2009, which was almost the same Change to singular
billion
to
 the United States with just above 20 Change preposition
for
billions
 in the Change to singular
billion
spand
 of 6 years. Correct your spelling
span
This
 differs from Australia's trade with China, in which the rate kept climbing from the starting year to reach a peak in 2008 and Linking Words
drop
 suddenly in 2009.Wrong verb form
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