Band 6+: The three charts below show the value in Australian dollars of Australian trade with three different countries from 2004 to 2009. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below.

The three charts mentioned above compares and contrasts data about the value of Australia’s trade between 3 countries: China, Japan, and USA, measured as billion dollars from 2004 to 2009.

Generally speaking, the trade between Australia and China increased significantly, especially exports. Exporting to Japan maintained at the highest level, peaked in 2008.Trading with USA quite stable, with little fluctuation. Moreover, in 2009, exports to China overcome imports, while other countries were not.

In terms of China’s trade, exports sharply grew from 13 billion to 36 billion AUD. Imports gradually increased from 18 billion to over 30 billion AUD. But, in 2009, exports exceed imports.

Regarding Japan’s trade, Japan exports at the high level (about over 20 billion AUD in 2004), before it peaked 40 billion in 2008 and then declined to 30 billion in 2009. Yet, its imports remained unchanged approximately 20 billion AUD, much lower than exports.

Lastly, trading with USA, it can be clearly seen that there is no remarkably fluctuations here, generally stable in 2009. This export country increased slightly from 9 billion in 2004 to peaked almost 15 billion in 2008, then declined to 12 billion in 2009. Moreover, imports rose from 20 billion to 25 billion AUD, lower than exports as much.