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 imported

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 different trends displayed on the line graphs. The trend for

Japan

is downward as New Zealand imported

goods

worth 3

billion

NZ$ in 1994 and 2

billion

in 2004.

On the other hand

, figures for

Australia

showed an upward trend as its

goods

were

the

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value

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of

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4

billion

at the beginning of the period and 7

billion

at the end

.

However

, there is considerable fluctuation for both countries. If we look at

imports

from

Japan

we

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see that the line graph displays two large peaks in 1997 and 2000 and that between these years New Zealand imported a higher

ammount

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amount

of

goods

from

Japan

than

Australia

.

Imports

from

Australia

also

fluctuated and dipped twice,

however

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the strong recovery in the second half of the period meant they ended up with

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

imports

from

Japan

decreased over time and those from

Australia

increased.