The two line graphs below show New Zealand import figures from Australia and Japan in the years 1994 - 2004. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts display the total amount of imports in New Zealand from Japan and Australia between 1994-2004.

Overall

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, the line graph that depicts imports from Australia has an upward trend

while

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Japan has a downward trend over the years. In the first chart (Australia), its highest point was in 2004 at 8000 million,

whereas

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in 1999, it bottomed out almost four times lower than its peak. Throughout the years, the sum of imports has fluctuated and it ended with twice as much as when it was in the beginning.

Subsequently

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, in the second chart (Japan), its peak point was in 1997, slightly more than three times its lowest in 2004.

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, the chart’s starting number declined exactly by one-third of it in the end.