The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*- labelled coffee and bananas in 1994 and 2004 in five European countries.

The tables below give information about sales of Fairtrade*- labelled coffee and bananas in 1994 and 2004 in five European countries.
The first table depicts the profits of fairtrade-labelled coffee in different
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countries
, in the
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1999 and in 2004. The second one shows the same data but for a different product, bananas.
Overall
, the
sales
increased over the years in most
countries
. The rise of one product in one country does not seem parallel to the increase
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sales
of the other commodity since the profits
varies
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. Looking at the first table, the UK is the only country where the
sales
of fairtrade coffee increased drastically, going from a profit of just 1.5
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of
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euros to 20
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. The other
countries
considered experienced a smaller but still impressive
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of
sales
. To mention a few, Switzerland went from 3 to 6
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, Belgium from 1 to 1.7. Considering the second product, which is fairtrade bananas, the UK shows again some interesting data. In
this
country in 1999 the commodity was quite popular with a yearly profit of 15
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, in 2004
this
number rose to 47
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. Other
countries
did not have
such
enormous
sales
and in some
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the gain even decreased. In Sweden,
for instance
, the 2
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euros profited in 1999 dropped to 0.9
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in 2004.
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