Japan is Australia’s leading market for exports of goods and services ($35.5 billion in 2006-07), followed by China ($26.4 billion), the United States ($15.5 billion), the Republic of Korea ($14.9 billion) and New Zealand ($12.7 billion).
The total volume of shipping containers passing through the city's port between July and December 2006 was 13.9 million tonnes.
Australia’s major import items were passenger motor vehicles, crude petroleum, personal travel services (excluding education), freight transportation services, refined petroleum, and computers. The United States was Australia’s largest source of imports, followed by China and Japan. goto trade

Australia's black coal exports were worth around $A22.5 billion in 2006-07, a decrease of about 8% on the record $A24.5 billion figure for 2005-06. Black coal remains Australia's largest commodity export, representing around 19 per cent of Australia's total commodity exports in 2005-06 - see chart below left. Goto Coal

Over the decade to 2006, Australia was the 5th largest net recipient of FDI in the OECD (OECD 2007). FDI is foreign direct investment...OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. A collection of 30 member states that use the organisation as a discussion forum to further their aims for a free market system