The given line chart delineates the proportion of Australian exports with four different nations, namely Japan, The US, China and India, from 1990 to 2012.

The given line chart delineates the proportion of Australian exports with four different nations, namely Japan, The US,

China

and India, from 1990 to 2012.

Overall

,

China

witnessed a dramatic rise in the percentage of Australian imports throughout the period.

Besides

, except

India

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, the other countries’ data slightly decreased. Even though

China

began with a poor

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in 1990, which was around 3%, it ultimately ended up at the highest rank amongst the four nations by 2012 with the recorded

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being over 25%. It was India that had the same start as

China

, at roughly 2%.

However

, unlike

China

, its

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did not rise until 2000 and it was

also

the country that possessed the lowest record

at the end

of the period. As regards Japan and The US, in 1990, their proportion

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Australian imports was fairly high, which was over 25% and 10% respectively. Having said that, both of them experienced a moderate decline right after that. After the year 1995,

while

the data of Japan remained nearly unchanged at under 20%, that

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of The US insignificantly fluctuated before ending up at around 7% in 2012.