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 line graphs show the value of

goods

imported to New Zealand from two different countries,

Japan

and

Australia

, over a

ten year

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period. There

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to be two opposing trends displayed on the line graphs. The trend for

Japan

was downward with the country exporting

goods

worth 3

billion

NZ$ in 1994 and 2

billion

in 2004.

On the other hand

,

Australia

exhibited an upward trend, exporting 4

billion

of

goods

at the beginning of the period and 8

billion

at the end

.

However

, there was considerable fluctuation for both countries. When looking at imports from

Japan

we can see that the line graph is dominated by two large peaks in 1999 and 2000 and that between these years New Zealand imported a higher value of

goods

from

Japan

than

Australia

. Imports from

Australia

also

fluctuated and they dipped twice.

However

, the strong recovery in the latter half of the period means they ended up exporting

goods

worth four times the value of those from

Japan

.

Overall

, we can see that imports were far from stable from both countries but that exports from

Japan

decreased over time and those from

Australia

increased.