Liquified natural gas export details are confidential. Trend growth for the period 1995-2000. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Japan is the second largest source of merchandise imports for Australia. Trade in services dominated by tourism Japan is Australia s second largest market for services exports.
Japan remains the second largest source of overseas visitors to Australia, behind New Zealand.
Japanese analysts also report that despite the continued uncertainty over a recovery in the Japanese economy, Japanese tourists are travelling abroad in greater numbers. Total international visitors from Japan and Asia to Australia is forecast to rise from 1.9 million in 1999 to 5.5 million in 2010. Australian Bureau of Statistics Education exports are an integral element of services trade. In 1999 some 2 per cent of Australia s total overseas university student population came from Japan, numbering 1,659 students. This figures is expected to have increased in 2000.