You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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. You should write at least 150 words.

A glance at the graph provided reveals the relative amount of imported goods

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imported to New Zealand from two countries (namely, Australia and Japan) from 1994 to 2004.

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, It is

edvident

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evident

that both nations saw considerable fluctuations in the amount of exported goods to New Zealand but that imports from Japan decreased over time and those from Australia increased. Increasing from approximately 4000

million

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in 1994 to 6500

million

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in 1996, the goods imported from Australia plunged to a low of just 3000

million

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in 1999.

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was followed by a period of exponential growth,

with

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reaching 7500

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in the second quarter of 2000 before

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by one-third to less than 5000

million

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in 2002. The following 2 years,

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, saw a rapid climb to somewhere in

vicinity

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the vicinity

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of 8000

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in 2004. The importation from Japan, meanwhile, soared to

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peak at over 6000

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in 1997, before dropping sharply to a little over 4000

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in 1999. The following year saw a rapid climb

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back

in

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figure, to somewhere in the vicinity of 6000

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, followed by a steady fall to the base at 2000

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in 2004.