Exporting New Zealand
Exporting New Zealand
Almost everything that our country makes or uses, arrives or leaves through a port.
Look around you. The computer you are using, your bike, cell phone, mp3 player, they all arrived in New Zealand aboard a ship.
Everything that we buy has to be paid for. If we buy from other countries, they expect to be paid for their goods.
So where do we get our money to buy these things we need? The answer is that we sell goods back to other countries.
Who Do We Trade With?
Click on the map below to find out which countries we exported to in 1906 and which ones we exported to in 2006.
Discuss with your classmates how our trading partners have changed over time and then offer some reasons for the change. Where were most of the countries located that we traded with in 1906?
Draw a pie graph of the top ten countries we traded with in 2006. In what part of the world are most of our trading partners located now?