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

sales

information on

coffee

and

bananas

which had

Fairtrade

labels attached to them and had been sold in five different

countries

in Europe in 1999 and 2004. The

sales

price

are

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is

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given in millions of Euros and the

fairtrade

coffee

and

bananas

indicate that the farmers who produced these products are from developing

countries

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

UK

was the largest market for

Fairtrade

labelled

coffee

while

Swiss people preferred

bananas

of

this

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

Fairtrade

labelled

coffee

and

bananas

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

coffee

sales

, the highest amount of

sales

could be observed in Switzerland in 1999 with exactly 3

million

Euro sale volume. The sale in the

UK

in

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this

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

million

Euro. After 5 years, the

sales

of

coffee

in these

countries

increases

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increased

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with a remarkable improvement in the

UK

. The

sales

went up to 20

million

Euros in the

UK

in 2004

with

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which

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was almost double

than

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the combined

sales

amount in the remaining four

countries

. For the banana

sales

, Switzerland was the largest market in both years.

Sales

amount in the rest of the

countries

summed to just over 4

million

while

it was 15

million

alone in Switzerland. The

sales

upsurged

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increased

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significantly and went up to 47

million

while

it decreased in Denmark.