The three line charts indicate the trading values of Australia with certain nations namely China, Japan and the United States over a period of 5 years starting from 2004.
Overall, it is clear that the import value of China and the United States were nearly the same. Noticeably, imports value of the United States and China was higher than exports. The opposite was true for Japan.
Looking at the first line graph, starting at around 12 billion AUD in 2004, the exports worth increased gradually to nearly 20 million AUD in the next 3 years. Then, this figure climbed considerably to above 30 billion AUD at the end of this period. On the other hand, the starting point of imports was much higher than the other, with approximately 20 billion AUD. After that, this figure rose gradually to about A$30 in 2008 before leveled of one year later.
In terms of Japan, exports and imports value have the same starting point at 20 million AUD in 2004. However, while imports remained unchanged most of the period and just fluctuated slightly between around 22 and 20 in the last 2 years, exports witnessed a major change in the following years. Firstly, in 2005, this figure increased to under 30 billion AUD. After that, the overseas sales was nearly flat in the next 2 years before reaching its peak at above 40 billion AUD in 2008. Nevertheless, this category fell to around 30 billion AUD, nearly the same as the year 2007.
Turning to the last line graph, the starting point of imports was double that of exports. While the purchase from abroad value remained unchanged at about 20 billion AUD for most of the period and experienced a slight decrease in the last year to nearly the starting point, the opposite was true for exports. This figure fluctuated between around 9 billion and about 12 billion in the 5 years period