A glance at the line graph reveals the distribution of Australian exports to Japan, the US, China, and India between 1990 and 2012.
Overall, it is evident that the proportions of Australian goods imported by Japan and the US witnessed a downward trend while that of China and India experienced an opposite pattern. Notably, Australia generally exported most products to Japan throughout the given period.
Regarding Japan and the US, in 1990, about 25% of Australian goods was exported to Japan, which significantly doubled that of the latter. Following that, after a slight increase of 1%, the figure for Japan registered a continuous fall until reaching below 20% by 2012, despite some fluctuation at around one-fifth in 2007. The US mirrored this trend, albeit at a lower rate, with the percentage of imports from Australia reducing to roughly 6% by the last year of the period.
Turning to the remaining countries, China and India imported relatively similar proportions of Australian goods in 1990, hovering at around 3%. Both of which then saw a subtle increase until 2000. After this point, the figure for China exponentially surged to nearly ten times higher than its initial statistics, with 30% by 2012. The percentage of Australian exports to India, meanwhile, reached a peak of 8% in 2008 before falling to approximately 6% by the end of the time frame.