Band 6+: The two line graphs below show New Zealand import figures from Australia and Japan in the years 1994 - 2004. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given line graphs shows a comparison of the imports between New Zeland and two different countries, Japan and Australia, over a ten-year period.

As can be seen from the graph, the two charts saw significant changes for both countries. However, the imports from Australia generally follow an upward trend and imports for Japan were downward.

At the beginning, New Zealand imported goods from Japon worth 3 billion NZ$ in 1994 and 2 billion in 2004. On the other hand, figures for Australia showed an increase as its goods were the value of 4 billion at the beginning of the period and 7 billion at the end.

However, there is considerable fluctuation for both countries. When looking at imports from Japan it is notable that the line graph presents two large peaks in 1997 and 2000 and that between these years New Zealand imported a higher ammount of goods from Japan than Australia. Imports from Australia also fluctuated and dipped twice, however the strong recovery in the second half of the period meant they ended up with goods worth four times the value of those from Japan.