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.

Both presented line graphs provide data on the Australian and Japanese importation to New Zealand over the ten-year period. As an

overall

trend, the two countries started at a similar quantity of funds in the beginning but dramatically differed from one another's expenditures by the end. New Zealand purchased goods from Australia for just under 4000

million

NZ

$ in 1994,

whereas

it bought about 1000

million

NZ

$ less from Japan the same year.

Then

the numbers of money contributed to imports from the two nations noticeably improved by 1996, they were a little higher than 6000

million

NZ

$. The spending reached the bottom point approximately in 1999 for Australian products.

Whereas

for items from Japan, expenses fluctuated but by the year 2000 rose up to nearly the same amount as in 1996. At the same time, a similar situation happened to the investments in goods from Australia, but the quantity of financial value surged to around 7500

million

NZ

$. Significant differences happened in the

last

quarter of the given period. The financing of the Australian importation was erratic and collapsed after the second half of 2000, but swiftly shot up in 2002 and culminated in 2004.

On the other hand

, New Zealand's funding of the products brought from Japan rapidly plummeted by 2001 and touched the lowest point at 2000

million

NZ

$ in 2004.