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

The tables compare five European

countries

in terms of the cost of fair sales of

coffee

and

bananas

by farmers over a period of 5

years

.

It is clear that

Switzerland

was by far the most peculiar country for the sales of both

bananas

and

coffee

in 1999. Belgium had a striking rise in the sale of

bananas

in 2004. Over 5

years

UK overtook

Switzerland

for the highest rate of sold

coffee

. In 1999,

Switzerland

was the main trader of

coffee

among European

countries

, with 3 million

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and its figure raised twice time in 2004. What stands out is the sharp increase of selling

coffee

in the UK from 1.5

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of

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to 20

millions

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euros

by 2004. Belgium went up from 1 to 1.7 and the other two

countries

had a minor rise of 0.2

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euro during

this

period. The vending of

bananas

in two European

countries

, Sweden and Denmark dramatically decreased from 1.8 and 2 to 1 and 0.9

millions

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euros

respectively.

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,

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and Belgium saw a substantial upward at about six times in the early

years

of the 20th century. By far the most dramatic progress in the trading of

bananas

was for

Switzerland

which put up to 47

millions

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of

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euros

after five

years

.