The two line graphs illustrate New Zealand’s imports from Australia and Japan between 1994 and 2004.
Overall, there are fluctuations in the figures from both Australia and Japan, with Japan showing a downward trend in the past few years.
The total of imported products that came from Australia increased steadily from 1994 until 1996 and started declining in the following year. However, it was not until 1999 that this Kiwi country experienced a steep decline (NZ $3000 million), the lowest it saw in 10 years. Despite the drastic drop, we can see a significant increase in the figure in the next year and fluctuations in the following years, reaching its peak in 2004 (NZ $8000 million).
When we look at the number of products brought in from Japan, we can say that there is a similar pattern to the ones that came in from Australia between 1994 and 1999, although New Zealand relied more on the goods brought in from Japan than from Australia in 1999. In general, the nation is dependent more upon its neighboring country than Japan to get the commodities, with the amount of imports from Australia overall higher than those from Sakura country, especially from 2001 onwards where there is a downward movement in the imported goods from Japan.