Thursday, March 10, 2011

Australia's Natural Resources

1. Who is Australia's largest export partner? What products do they export with them? How much of each product do they export? For what purpose does that country need the products they import from Australia?

Australia's largest export partner is China and they usually export to china are minerals and fuels, services, manufactured goods and rural products. They export for minerals and fuels about 23 billion dollars a year, for services about 12 billion dollars a year, and for manufactured goods and rural products about 3 billion dollars a year. For fuels and services they export about 193.6 million tonnes exported every year. The reason why china needs minerals and fuel because china cant produce enough fuel like coal to support there very heavy use of fuel lifestyle.

2. Who is Australia's largest import partner? What do they import from them? How much? Why do you think that Australia imports these goods from this country?

Australia's largest import partner is china and they usually import goods like clothing, communications equipment, computers, prams, toys, games and sporting goods, furniture and televisions. China’s total merchandise exports to Australia valued at A$35.8 billion. Australia imports these goods from this country because it is a lot cheaper and they cant produce as much in Australia because they don't have the population and workers.

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