The two line graphs below show New Zealand import figures from Australia and Japan in the years 1994 - 2004.
The line graphs provide information about the
rate
of New Zealand
's product importation from Australia
and Japan
between the years 1994 and 2004.
Over the 10-year period, New Zealand
saw a rise and fall trend in terms of imported goods from Japan
and Australia
. It is very clear that a larger rate
of imports was seen in Australia
in the given years.
During the early years, there was a rising trend in products purchased outside New Zealand
. In 1994, $4000 million
was spent on Australian goods, while
Japan
accounted for $3000 million
in imports. The purchase of foreign commodities from Australia
continued to rise until 1996 at around $6500 million
before a series of up-and-down trends, and by 1998, a dramatic fall from roughly $5500 to $3000 million
in 1999 was seen.
Import rates from Japan
, on the one hand steadily increased from 1994 to 1997 at $3000 to just above $6000 respectively. Another spike was seen in purchasing Japanese products at the beginning of 1999. From $6000 million
in the year 2000, New Zealand
's rate
of import from Japan
declined rapidly. By 2004, the rate
of imports from Australia
was threefold higher than that of Japan
at $8000 million
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