Band 6+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The three charts below show the value in Australian dollars of Australian trade with three different countries from 2004 to 2009. Write a report for a university lecturer describing the information below. You should write at least 150 words.

The given charts illustrate the value of Australia’ s trade in Australian dollars with China, Japan, and United States during the period of six years from 2004 to 2009.

It’s clear that the values of exports and import from Australian trade with China and United States increased gradually while these figures with Japan shared contrasting movement. In addition, Japan had the highest value of exports and China had the highest value of import in Australia’ s trade.

At the beginning, the figures in import and exports of Australian trade with China were 19 and 13 billion australian dollars, respectively. During the period from 2009 he 2007, these increased dramatically to 27 and 23 billion australian dollars which were 8 and 10 higher.

In terms of Japan, this country remained stable value of import from 20 billion australian dollars in 2004 to 22 billion australian dollars in 2009. From 2004 to 2007, the exports value of Japan rose up from 21 to 29 billion dollars where as thi reached a peak in 2008 at 40 billion dollars and decreased remarkably to 31 billion dollars in 2009.

From 2004 to 2009, the value of import in Australia’ s trade went up slowly from 20 to 22 billion dollars. Similarly, the exports value in Australian trade went from 9 to 12 billion dollars