Table 5.

Percentage of total import value ($) for main trading partners of Australia from each import source region between 1937 and 2007

	Time period
Import source region	1937–1939	1966–1969	2006–2007
North America	22.3	25.6	13.8
New Zealand	1.9	1.9	3.1
Europe	44.7	34.7	9.2
Asia	15.8	22.8	41.2

Sources: Meredith and Dyster 1999; ABS 2007. Each region includes some or all of the following countries: North America (USA, Canada), New Zealand, Europe (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and Asia (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Persian Gulf, Republic of Korea, Singapore, South and Southeast Asia and Thailand).