You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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. » Write at least 150 words.

The table data provides

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information on

coffee

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and

bananas

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which had

Fairtrade

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labels attached to them and had been sold in five different

countries

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in Europe in 1999 and 2004. The

sales

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price

are

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given in millions of Euros and the

fairtrade

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coffee

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and

bananas

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indicate that the farmers who produced these products are from developing

countries

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and have been paid a decent price for their production. As a general trend, the

UK

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was the largest market for

Fairtrade

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labelled

coffee

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while

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Swiss people preferred

bananas

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of

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category in 2004. As the table data demonstrates, the market for

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labelled

coffee

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and

bananas

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witnessed a dramatic increase in 2004 than that of 5 years ago. With regards to

coffee

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sales

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, the highest amount of

sales

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could be observed in Switzerland in 1999 with exactly 3

million

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Euro sale volume. The sale in the

UK

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in

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this

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year was half of that and the lowest sale was recorded in Sweden with less than 1

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Euro. After 5 years, the

sales

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of

coffee

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in these

countries

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increases

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with a remarkable improvement in the

UK

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. The

sales

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went up to 20

million

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Euros in the

UK

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in 2004

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which

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was almost double

than

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apply

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the combined

sales

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amount in the remaining four

countries

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. For the banana

sales

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, Switzerland was the largest market in both years.

Sales

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amount in the rest of the

countries

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summed to just over 4

million

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it was 15

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alone in Switzerland. The

sales

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upsurged

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significantly and went up to 47

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while

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it decreased in Denmark.