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.

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
that
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imported to New Zealand from two countries (namely, Australia and Japan) from 1994 to 2004.
Overall
, 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
in 1994 to 6500
million
in 1996, the goods imported from Australia plunged to a low of just 3000
million
in 1999.
This
was followed by a period of exponential growth,
with
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reaching 7500
million
in the second quarter of 2000 before
dropped
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dropping
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by one-third to less than 5000
million
in 2002. The following 2 years,
then
, saw a rapid climb to somewhere in
vicinity
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the vicinity
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of 8000
million
in 2004. The importation from Japan, meanwhile, soared to
the
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a
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peak at over 6000
million
in 1997, before dropping sharply to a little over 4000
million
in 1999. The following year saw a rapid climb
bacl
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back
in
this
figure, to somewhere in the vicinity of 6000
million
, followed by a steady fall to the base at 2000
million
in 2004.
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