The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade-labelled coffee and bananas in 1999 and 2004 in five European countries.

The tables provide data about the amount of money, in millions of euros, earned by selling Fair-labelled

coffee

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and bananas in the UK, Switzerland, Denmark,

Belgium

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, and

Sweden

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in the years 1999 and 2004.

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, when these data are scrutinized, it can be vividly seen that the sales of

coffee

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experienced an upward trend.

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, banana sales in two countries,

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and

Sweden

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, showed a decrease,

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the rest of the three countries grew noticeably. In terms of

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, the total

coffee

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sales in the UK were at 1.5

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in 1999 and rose sharply to 20

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in 2004. Over 5 years, Switzerland climbed up two-fold to 6

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in 2004, in 1999 which was 3

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. Denmark and

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had a slide growth of 0.2

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, reaching 2 and 1

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respectively, and

Belgium

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increased from 1 to 1.7 throughout the period.

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, regarding bananas, in 1999, the UK was recorded at 15

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euros,

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jumped more than three times to 47

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in 2004.

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, Switzerland and

Belgium

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took up 5.5 and 4.6

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respectively in 2004, which were at 1 and 0.6 at the beginning.

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,

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and

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witnessed a marginal decline from 1.8 and 2 in 1999

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to 1 and 0.9 in 2004.