The graph below shows the percentage of Australian exports to four countries from 1990 to 2012.

The line graph illustrates how much international trade Australia did

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four major countries (Japan, USA, China and India) between 1990 and 2012.

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, Japan, which

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placed first among the other countries, dropped significantly in proportion over the twenty-two-year period. China and India saw an increase over the same interval, in which the former grew substantially,

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the latter fell to some degree in the final year. One notable trend can be seen in the data for Japan, which witnessed a steady decline from the peak of thirty

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in 1990 to just under twenty

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in 2012. Meanwhile, China experienced a rapid climb all the way to thirty

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sales over the same period. The only country to remain below ten

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in sales quota throughout the given period was India,

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The US was the sole country which showed a fluctuation in quantity for the whole time span.