The tables below give information about sales o f Fairtrade* - labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The two tables below compare the

money

people spent in

five

European nations on

coffee

and

bananas

over a period of 5 years, which are labelled with

Fairtrade

, a category of food produced

from

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developing countries.

It is clear that

Switzerland

cost

the highest amount of

money

on

bananas

among the

five

countries during the

five

years.

However

, the highest ranking country of

money

spent on

Fairtrade

coffee

was changed from

Switzerland

to the

UK

. In 1999,

Switzerland

cost

3

million

euros for buying

Fairtrade

coffee

, followed by Denmark and the

UK

with 1.8 and 1.5

million

respectively.

However

,

Switzerland

only increased

3

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million

for

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purchasing

coffee

during the

five

years, compared to the sales in Britain rose dramatically from 1.5

million

to 20

million

. For Denmark, Belgium and Sweden, the

money

they

cost

on

coffee

was stable with a little rise of no more than 0.7

million

. Moving to the sales of

bananas

, it is obvious that

Switzerland

consumed the largest number of

Fairtrade

-labelled

bananas

that they

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cost

15

million

in 1999 and 47

million

in 2004, which is well over

than

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any other country.

Also

, both

UK

and Belgium saw an increase in expenditure on

bananas

, from 1

million

to 5.5

million

in the

UK

and from 0.6

million

to 4

million

in Belgium.

On the contrary

, there was a decrease selling of

Fairtrade

bananas

in Sweden and Denmark, which had fallen

approximately

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1

million

euros.