The line graph shows the percentages of Australian export with four countries. The graph below shows the percentage of Australian exports to 4 countries from 1990 to 2012

The line graph illustrates the proportion of exports from Australia to four different countries, including Japan, the United States,

China

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and

India

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, between the years 1990 and 2012.

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, there was an upside trend in two nations that used to have the lowest shares,

China

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and

India

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,

while

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the other two faced a decline in exports.

To begin

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, in 1990,

China

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and

India

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used to have a very small percentage of imports from Australia, with less than 5%,

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, both states' numbers started to increase slowly. The turning point was the sharp growth in the year 2000.

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, exportation to

China

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exponentially rose to more than 25% within a decade

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and eventually reached 30% in 2012. Meanwhile, in the case of

India

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, they continued to gradually increase, which was at its peak of approximately 8% in 2010. In 2012,

India

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still remained the country with the lowest percentage.

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, Japan used to dominantly acquire more than a quarter of the exports in 1990,

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started to fall to 20% in 1995 and maintained its share at less than 20% until 2012. The United States rates fluctuated around 10% throughout the 1990s

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and

then

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dropped to slightly more than 5% in 2012.