The tables below give information about sales of fairtrade - labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five european countries

The two tables given depict the amount of fair trade merchandise sold, coffee and bananas, in 1994 and 2004 in the five Western countries.

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, there is an evident tendency that people prefer to purchase Fairtrade items in

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five-year period. The most prominent change could appear in the UK. In 1999, the quantity of sold Fairtrade coffee was only 1.5 million euros;

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, it expanded enormously and showed 13 times from its original datum. As for the other countries, they grew their deals, Switzerland and Belgium depicted an increase of as much as twice in the same period,

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Denmark and Sweden enjoyed a slight rise. In terms of the sales of bananas,

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Sweden and Belgium suffered a fall and they are less than half from a half-decade before. The need in the UK, Switzerland, and Denmark witnessed a dramatic rise, more than three-folds, five-folds, and six-folds, respectively.