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Sales of Australian are soaring, with exports to East Asia up 131.3 per cent in just one year, to the European Union up 104.3 per cent and to the Americas up 96.7 per cent, new studies reveal.

Analyses of Australian trade for 2008, prepared by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), show these three regions account for 80 per cent of Australia's total trade with the world.