The line graph above illustrates the percentages of Australian international transport of goods to four external countries from 1990 to 2012.
The four nations represented are Japan, the United States of America, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of India. At the start of 1990, Japan was at the pinnacle of trade with Australia until it plummeted in percentage until 1995 and continued to steadily decline. The United States slightly fell but then corrected itself until it gradually dropped back down again. On the other hand, India had the lowest start out of the four countries. It firstly remained stable until it moderately climbed up to its record of approximately 7.5% then slightly fell off. The same could not be said for the trades between the Oceania nation and the trade powerhouse, China. Their trade started off slightly above India and subsequently grew exponentially, exceeding even Japan at the start of 1990.
While China had grown dramatically, the other empires’ percentages followed the same trend of falling off in trade with Australia.