The tables below give information about sales of 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 tables illustrate how Fairtrade-labelled

coffee

and bananas were sold in a 5-year period from 1999. The data is measured in million for the

UK

,

Switzerland

,

Denmark

, Belgium and

Sweden

.

Overall

,

it is clear that

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there was a dramatic increase

of

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sales

of Fairtrade-labelled

coffee

in

UK

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,

while

this

figure followed a marginal growth for other countries. A substantial increase was the case in the index of

sales

of bananas for

Switzerland

,

while

that for the

UK

and Belgium witnessed a steady rise.

However

, there

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a moderate reduction for

Sweden

,

Denmark

Looking at the details, the number of

sales

of

coffee

increased dramatically from 1.5 ml to 20 between 19999 and 2004 in the

UK

,

while

the figure for

Switzerland

doubled in 2004. The indicates for

coffee

sales

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Belgium experienced a marginal rise from 1 to 1.7,

while

the number for

Denmark

(1.8) and

Sweden

(0.8) increased by 0.2 until 2004. There was a substantial upward of the index of

Switzerland

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bananas

sales

from 15 to 47,

steady

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growth from 1 to 3.5 and from 0.6 to 4

accordingly

. A dramatic decrease was the case in the index of banana

sales

of

Sweden

and

Denmark

by almost 1 in accordance.