The given three graphs illustrate information about the revenue in Australian dollars of Australian trade with China, Japan, and United States between 2004 and 2009. As an overall trend, the amount of money spent on export and import showed different trends.1
Looking closely at the first chart, it is clear that the number of Australian dollars spent on both imports and exports increased slighly from 2004 to 2007, making up a bit more than 20 billion dollars and just above 10 billion dollars, respectively in 2007. Then, imports budget continued to rise, and showed constant value in the last 1-year period, while the ammount of money expenditured to exports increased dramatically from just above 10 billion dollars to almost 35 billion dollars in 2009.
In the case of trade between Australia and Japan, the budget of imported goods stayed unchanged, composing 20 billion dollars in the whole period of time. While money spent to export fluctuated bu rising up and down.
According to the third picture, the total budget of import and export remained almost constant, accounting for just above than 20 billion dollars and a bit more than 10 billion dollars, respectively between five-year period from 2004 to 2009.
